Installing ubuntu 9.10 -- some problems

[Rajinder Yadav]

On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 6:50 AM, Paul King <sciguy-Ja3L+HSX0kI at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> The download of the ISO went OK, the binary was burned to DVD, and it checked
> out. I booted into it and noticed:
>
> 1. graphical interface doesn't work (kernel panics and it can't find my main
> hard drive)

I am seeing similar problems with the LiveCD, on my box, however I am
able to bootup and make it to the 1st screen that asks to select a
language. After this point my screen gets really messed up and I see
vertical green bars. I also was getting a lot of SR0 errors not sure
why?

I was able to use the same CD to install on my laptop, which is an
older pc and its now running 9.10 without and issues.

Some improvement were made with the install cd, because when it first
came, i could not even install 9.10 on my laptop. I did another
download and burned a 2nd cd, will trying to reinstall on my box
tonight.

I don't think the install CD is up to par and I would report any
issues. I posted comment about my problem on the forum but I think I
will need to log a bug tonight after another go at it with the new CD.

> 2. text mode works well, except for when the time comes to select my packages.
> it seems to dump core (gives a symbolic stack dump on screen for a split
> second), then put me into a screen where it says that the "selecting packages"
> step failed. A look at the console (tty4) says that "pkgsel failed (code 127)".
> After this, I checked the DVD, no problems.
>
> Another bit of strangeness is that in text mode, the system was going to
> install to my USB/Firewire drive by default (which is a single NTFS partition),
> instead of the Linux partitions of my main SATA drive, inside my PC, which one
> would think would have been the default. The firewire drive doesn't show up in
> the BIOS, whereas the internal drive does.
>
> Because package selection died on me, I had to only set up the users and
> passwords and GRUB on partitions containing only the base system (no X, nothing
> else), so that I could at least boot into Windows to write this email.
>
> Anyone have any clues about this?
>
> Paul

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Rajinder Yadav

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