Unity: Nothing can go wrong!

[Fred A. Miller]

On 04/18/2011 04:03 PM, Michael Haney wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 10:04 AM, Fred A. Miller <fmiller at lightlink.com> wrote:
>> > On 04/17/2011 07:27 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
>> >
>> > [snip]
>> >
>> > I appologize.....I said "3" but it isn't....current Gnome. I can't find any
>>> >> option for
>>> >> a Unity startup....no options at all. The image is the 64-bit iso from the
>>> >> Ubuntu site. The
>>> >> file name is: ubuntu-11.04-beta2-desktop-amd64.iso
>> >
>> > It doesn't and you didn't get GNOME 3. You got GNOME 2.
>> >
>> > Unity requires 3D compositing. They are working on a separate 2D
>> > version but it's not ready yet.
>> >
>> > The way it works is meant to be this:
>> >
>> >  - if you have hardware 3D, you get Unity;
>> >  - if you don't, you get GNOME 2.
>> >
>> > No, I don't think that's correct. The disk doesn't have the new nVidia
>> > drivers so you can't get Unity.
>> >
> Ubuntu can install updates from the repos during installation.  When
> it does hardware detection during the install process why couldn't it
> install the driver then and there during the main installation
> process?  So when you get to the desktop, you've got Unity if you have
> 3D hardware, or Gnome 2 if you don't.

As I said from the getgo. I wanted to run Unity from the CD.....NOT
install it.
The driver should be on the CD and it isn't.

Fred

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