'restarting' an aborted edubuntu installation

[Cedric Janssens]

You can try to install ubuntu-desktop or edubuntu-desktop but there is two
good reason to avoid this operation :

1/ You don't know exactly what's missing
2/ You should find why the installation "hang" (or ??"hung"??) ?

Regards
Cedric

2007/3/2, Michael Steigerwald <mikesteigerwald at gmail.com>:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Thanks to this list, I've made good progress on my dual boot project, but
> have encountered a new challenge that merits a forked thread. I think I got
> an incomplete edubuntu installation. I'm wondering if I need to start from
> scratch, or if there is a way to pick up where I left off.
>
> I was doing a vanilla "Install to hard drive" edubuntu installation, but
> it appeared to 'hang' at 50% of 'creating LTSP chroot.' To be safe, I let it
> run overnight, and returned to a mostly black screen, with what appeared to
> be two white block-cursor rectangles. (At the risk of dating myself, it
> reminded me of Pong.)
>
> When I rebooted, the splash screen indicated I had ubunutu (not edubuntu)
> installed, started bash, and let me log in as root. This leaves me with two
> questions:
>
>    1. What's the best way to find out how much of the edubuntu
>    installation I need to finish manually?
>    2. Is there a combination of apt-get commands I can use to get
>    gnome/KDE loaded so I can finish with a GUI?
>
> TIA
>
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