Locahost login after installation

[yashg98]

I recently installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my computer with a USB stick cause I don't have a CD drive. The normal ISO didn't work, so I used the text installer and completed all the steps somehow. Eventually it showed "Finishing Installation" and rebooted and I was met with a prompt saying "Localhost login ttly" or something.

I searched some old forums and tried out the login and password as root, guest, ubuntu etc but all in vain. I used the rescue mode and tried to install ubuntu desktop with
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop

it says it is not installed and attempts to install. So I think I found
the problem. The desktop is not istalled. But when I run this command it
says it wants some disk space. I press enter and then it asks to insert
the ubuntu CD and press Enter again. But as I told, I don't have a CD drive,
so can anyone help me out?

[dino99]

check that the bios is set to boot on hdd

open a terminal & run:

gksu gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

select the line talking about cd and comment it out, by adding # in front of this line

then save and exit from gedit. Then run:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --fix-missing
sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh -a
(be patient, it can take a while)

[yashg98]

I can't enter Ubuntu, but can I do what you told in a Rescue mode shell?

[sunson565]

I can't enter Ubuntu, but can I do what you told in a Rescue mode shell?
I have a very similar problem, please post the solution if you found it out

[sunson565]

I re created the live usb with a ubuntu 12.04, using usb creator, booted well in the first time, I did some changes (installed video codecs and main menu u torrent) then rebooted, ! it didn't boot ! please see the screen shot
http://i807.photobucket.com/albums/yy358/zaprotta/screenshots/1.jpg