Help to get started

[Harry and Sandy]

Good evening,

Thank you Doug, Richard and Nils for your quick reply in trying to solve my problem.

Nils, I tried using the command line as you suggested, but with no luck.

So I have downloaded a new copy of the .iso using torrent and burned that to a DVD with a 2X burn as Doug suggested. I have ended up with the same result.

But there are a couple of things that may provide a clue to what is happening. When I installed the first time as well as this time I got a message during the instillation as follows:-

UBI-Console-setup crashed
UBI-Console-setup failed with exit code 141. Further information may be found in /var/log syslog. Do you want to try running this step again before continuing? If you do not, your installation may fail entirely or may be broken.

I am then given the options to Retry, Ignore or Retry.

I both cases I have hit Retry and then the installation moved on to the next step - Keyboard Layout like the problem is fixed.

The other thing is in the Disk Setup page during the installation today showed:-

Before
/dev/sdbi     /devsdb5
under the top bar

After
Kubuntu
under the bottom bar

This suggests to me that Kubuntu did not load during my attempts the other day and after the installation today I went into the installation process again after installing today and there is no sign of Kubuntu in the top bar as though it has still not loaded. The top bar on the Disk Setup page now reads;- Before 
/dev/sdbi     /devsdb5   /dev/sdb6

I hope this gives a clearer picture of what may be going wrong.

Also Richard, I would like to persist with Kubuntu 10.10 as we are going to upgrade our computer soon, but we would like this os on it if we can master it. But thanks for your suggestion of the alternative.

Thanks again to you all,
Harry.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Doug 
  To: kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com 
  Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2010 3:23 PM
  Subject: Re: Help to get started


  On 10/29/2010 11:34 PM, Harry and Sandy wrote: 
    Hello,



    I have installed Kubuntu 10.10 from a live DVD to my Desktop on an old 40GB drive which had Windows98 on it. After installation and reboot it got to the user and log in page, entered my user name and password and then started to proceed to the next page (with has a picture of a hard drive) but then it returned to the log in page. Every time I tried since after rebooting the same thing happens. As this is an old drive I had not used for some time I thought the drive might be buggered so I loaded Kubuntu 10.10 on my drive I use all the time beside XP Pro. When I rebooted I got the same result.



    When I log in to XP Pro it does not recognise my old 40GB drive or the partition on the 160GB drive. Is this normal?



    My only experience with computers is to sit down and use them, so I am extremely new to this.



    I would appreciate any help to get started so I can get away from MS Windows.



    Thank you,

    Harry.

  I think you will get many replies, and welcome to Linux.  Mostly, folks don't have all that much
  trouble getting the system up and running, and since you wound up with the same problem
  on two installations on different drives, I would suspect your source CD is defective.  But
  to put to bed the possibility that something in the computer is a problem, (I assume from your 
  description you're using the same computer with either HD), can you run the LIVE version of
  Kubuntu from the CD?  If you can, then the computer should be OK to run Linux, and it takes it
  back to a defective install CD.  Back to that in a moment.

  To answer your question:  Windows cannot see partitions on a disk that are formatted
  in ext3 or ext4 (there are some Windows programs that will let you read and write to these 
  file systems, but as it comes out of the box, Windows will not recognize them). Ext4 is almost
  certainly the file system Kubuntu has used to format the partitions, unless you somehow told it
  to use something else.  (I don't remember how the installation is configured.)  So yes, what you're
  seeing is normal.

  Back to the disk problem:  When you download a new copy of the .iso and burn it to CD,
  use nothing faster than 2X to burn.  Also, it may be safer (altho I have not seen the problem)
  if you can download the file using torrent.  I am told that it is more resistant to errors.
  DO download a fresh copy, don't just burn another from what's on your drive now.
  These choices should give you a fair shot at getting a working install. 

  While you're at it, 40 GB should be enough disk space for most reasonable uses of Kubuntu,
  but if you're going to be doing a lot of photo, video or sound work, you'll probably need
  something larger.  Get the system working first, and get used to using it before worrying
  about disk size.

  Good luck.

  --doug


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