Trying to install 8.10

[Graham Todd]

On Tue, 4 Nov 2008 08:04:47 +1000
Lindsay Mathieson <lindsay.mathieson at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 4 Nov 2008 07:42:56 am Graham Todd wrote:
> > On Sun, 2 Nov 2008 09:31:10 +1000
> >
> >
> > Under it, the white screen vanishes and a black screen takes its
> > place with just a hint of a grey oblong appearing.
> 
> I'd guess that's the stage where it tries to fire up X - are you past
> all the disk config screens etc by then?

Yes
> 
> What Video do you have - onboard? card?

Nvidia card

> >
> > Then it loses connection through my ethernet cable........
> 
> How do you tell that?

When my ethernet cable is connected, a light comes on, but at this
point the light goes out.  I can use 8.10 as a live CD, except
NetworkManager switches off at the end and I cannot connect with
Konqueror.

> 
> Are you driving this install from the console?

Tried using the text install, the graphical install, the console-only
install
> 
> Sorry for all the questions :)
> 
> 
> 
If you can get me through this, the "third degree" would have been
worth it :-)

-- 
Graham Todd