BluntedBoyWonder
October 28th, 2008, 08:22 PM
Hello all,
I've been an Ubuntu for several years now, so first of all thanks for this wonderful project.
Not so wonderful is my new problem: live sessions & installs from cd-rom fail. This happens with an official, delivered by mail 8.04 as well as with the freshly available 8.10 prerelease.
I've got my computer set up for a dual boot, but when I insert either Ubuntu disks install doesn't go further than the first Ubuntu splash screen with the crawling orange bar. After that, instead of providing me with an Ubuntu install process, I am treated to a shell environment that says before the cursor:
"ubuntu@ubuntu:"
What am I to do? I tried the "startx" command but get returned an error. My knowledge of bash and shell commands do not go much further than an elementary level.
I am on an Acer Aspire 1350 laptop and had 8.04 installed fine and working by means of upgrading from 7.x. I wanted a clean install so I formatted my drive and re-partitioned.
Is this a common error and are there any common causes? I Googled around and found nothing.
Greets,
the BBW
I've been an Ubuntu for several years now, so first of all thanks for this wonderful project.
Not so wonderful is my new problem: live sessions & installs from cd-rom fail. This happens with an official, delivered by mail 8.04 as well as with the freshly available 8.10 prerelease.
I've got my computer set up for a dual boot, but when I insert either Ubuntu disks install doesn't go further than the first Ubuntu splash screen with the crawling orange bar. After that, instead of providing me with an Ubuntu install process, I am treated to a shell environment that says before the cursor:
"ubuntu@ubuntu:"
What am I to do? I tried the "startx" command but get returned an error. My knowledge of bash and shell commands do not go much further than an elementary level.
I am on an Acer Aspire 1350 laptop and had 8.04 installed fine and working by means of upgrading from 7.x. I wanted a clean install so I formatted my drive and re-partitioned.
Is this a common error and are there any common causes? I Googled around and found nothing.
Greets,
the BBW