My Trouble Starting Ubuntu 12.04?

[Peter Vágner]

Hello,
I recommend you to play with live cd a bit whether the crashes are reproducible and try reporting if thats indeed possible in such a broken state you are getting.
I know you can choose where to install grub during the install as well as choosing existing partitions with their mount points however i dont know if it can pick your files from other distros.

Greetings

Peter



Dňa 2.4.2012, o 23:15, Dave Hunt <ka1cey at gmail.com> napísal:

> Hi,
> 
> I think the system was booting when I used the unetbootin method, but the thing was acting as if I'd done an install from the cd to a flash drive, and by-passed the special session from which I could install.  It brought me into a session with Unity 3d, and I could, sometimes, start orca.
> 
> Per your suggestion, I jusd did a 'dd' to put the image onto my flash drive.  The resulting system has no persistent space but boots.  I get the drums sound, I hit 'ctrl+s', get orca, and hit 'try Ubuntu.  I start orca in this session.  I log out, then hit 'ctrl+s'.  I can go to this session selector and get into Unity 2d this way.  This Unity 2d session ran for about 5 minutes, then the Unity Service Panel applet crashed, taking all the menus with it, and leaving me with a system where I couldn't even switch apps with 'alt+tab'. Assuming I ever get a sysgem that has reliable accessibility, and no components crash, can I install this to my hard drive, leaving my user data in place?  If, for instance, I choose the 'advanced' option in the installer, can I just tell the insaller to not format the partitions?  If I choose the same username I use with Trisquel 5.5, will my stuff be there when I login?  I've already backed up the files of interest to another machine on my home network.
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> Cheers,
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> Dave
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> On Mon, 2 Apr 2012, Peter Vágner wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>> If you are afraid the image is not properly placed on to an USB drive you might try just dd the iso file on to the proper device while it's unmounted. I did it using this method and it worked.
>> If you think the system is actually booting maybe the sound is muted on startup.
>> You can try switching it on using the multimedia keys if your pc has some or you can blindly try to start a terminal and use alsa-mixer.
>> I have used command
>> Alsa-mixer -c 0 set Master 100% unmute
>> 
>> Finally if you can conect the pc to the network using ethernet cable and have another spare computer you migh try  installing an running ssh.
>> To try starting the terminal when the live 2012.04 is booted you can-
>> - press ctrl+s to start orca
>> - assuming orca has started eventhough you cant hear the voice you should land in the orca window.
>> - you can alt+tab once to focuss the installer window
>> - in the installer window press tab key once to focuss try ubuntu button and space to activate it
>> - finally wait for the desktop to reload and then press ctrl+alt+t to launch terminal.
>> 
>> I know my advices are verry general. This is what i was trying to do in the past.
>> 
>> Greetintz
>> 
>> Peter
>> 
>> 
>> Dňa 2.4.2012, o 17:36, Dave Hunt <ka1cey at gmail.com> napísal:
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>>> Yah, I know, I said I'm giving up, but have trouble doing that.  LOL.
>>> 
>>> When I put 12.04 onto a flash drive, I used the unetbootin program, and gave the system as much persistent space as the drive's capacity will allow.  When I start the resulting system, I never get the chance to choose an accessible session (no drums or music ever sound).  Should I do something differently when making the usb system?    I start with the Precise desktop, found in the dailylive directory.  Below is how I invoke unetbootin to make this system (ignore line breaks).
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>>> Any thoughts?
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>>> Dave
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>>> sudo unetbootin method=diskimage isofile=/home/dave/Downloads/precise-desktop-i386.iso installtype=USB targetdrive=/dev/sdb persistentspace=9999 autoinstall=yes
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