Hi Peter, I am sorry to hear you had so many troubles helping your friend. I hope that by copying this reply to the Ubuntu mail list for California some others can provide some suggestions to you directly. I will contact you later as well.
Grant Bowman http://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam On Aug 12, 2009 2:33 PM, "Peter Belew" <[email protected]> wrote: People at the meeting last Monday heard me on the phone talking about problems a friend in San Francisco was having installing Linux on his computer, to replace a virus-ridden Windows XP. A lot of the problem had to do with the installer or installed Linux not recognizing his display hardware. I ended up actually going up there on Tuesday. What we ended up doing was to install Ubuntu 7.10 (which allows one to specify in the command line - using a selection you get by pressing F4 when the installer/livecd boots). Once that was installed (and recognized his USB wifi interface) he did an upgrade install into Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (good till 2011!). At the very end of the upgrade, the process hung, while doing some initrd processing, due to a problem with network_assistant. After waiting a long while for this to complete, and finally doing a hard reboot, the new system wouldn't boot into the new kernel, only into the previous kernel. He submitted a bug report to launchpad: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/325180 Has anyone seen anything like this? More importantly, how should he complete the installation of the new kernel, now that the system is working otherwise? One thing I note is that the upgrade does a lot of commenting out and editing in sources.list, leaving the file looking quite messy. It seems to me that the upgrade program should really provide a fairly clean version of that file, as if it were installed from scratch from an 8.04 CD. - Peter Belew _______________________________________________ Smaug mailing list [email protected] http://lists.svlug.org/lists/listinfo/smaug Smaug home page: http://www.scruz.org/
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