To convert a Ubuntu server to desktop, I am pretty sure the all you need is to "apt-get install ubuntu-desktop" which will add the virtual package (and all its dependencies.
It sounds like your video chipset is causing you grief with the liveCD. In cases like this, I always use the "alternate" CD which is basically a desktop install cd using text-mode. Martin Visser Technology Consultant Consulting & Integration Technology Solutions Group - HP Services 410 Concord Road Rhodes NSW 2138 Australia Mobile: +61-411-254-513 Fax: +61-2-9022-1800 E-mail: martin.visserAThp.com This email (including any attachments) is intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above and may contain information that is confidential, proprietary or privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify HP immediately by return email and then delete the email, destroy any printed copy and do not disclose or use the information in it. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 23 March 2007 1:44 PM To: slug@slug.org.au Subject: [SLUG] ubuntu server Hi The only way that I've been able to install ubuntu on my pentium-m laptop is this bizare sequence: 1) Install server on laptop After install boot fails with a register dump 2) install server on a desktop machine 3) apt-get the generic image (not the server!) 4) boot the lappie on knoppix. copy the generic kernel, initrd, modules from desktop 5) boot the lappie, install ubuntu-desktop OK nearly all good apt-get the latest generic kernel fails (mkinitramfs tools dependencies) The real problem is that despite wearing all desktop clothes the lappie 'knows' it's a server. How, where do I change the personality from server to desktop? BTW the problem is common to 6.06, 6.10 and feisty-beta In every case live CD boots, displays a screen about gnome-error (message, network ?) and there is a pretty desktop, mouse-that-moves and is unresponsive to anything else eg install (icon highlights, click does pretty much nothing. This lappy installs SuSE 10.2 without any fuss, and as a server seems to run perfectly (with the hand-crafted generic kernel, the server kernel gives a register dump) James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
