20050316.3 CD Installation Report, badly broken!

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 10:07:33PM -0500, Matt Galvin wrote:

> This installtion is badly broken on my machine. Here is what happened to me...
> 
> * CD booted as normal
> 
> * Got to partition my drives
> 
> then it broken from here on it
> 
> * After the partitioning was done I was dropped into the Ubuntu
> Installer Main Menu(UIMM) with the Select Timezone entry select, I hit
> enter, screen blanked as if it were going to another screen, it
> brought me back the this Main Menu with the Timezone option selected
> again, this happened a few times.

This is a known problem with a fix in progress.

> * I then proceeded to select the Set up users... and I set up my user ok
> 
> * Back to the UIMM to select Finish install, this also did not work. I
> tried a few times and it kept sending back to the UIMM.
> 
> * I had to drop into a shell and manually reboot the machine.
> 
> * Gnome/X did not start up
> 
> so
> 
> * I poked around a bit...
> 
> * The machine came up with a bare bones system.
> 
> * Gnome and all of that good stuff did not even get installed.
> 
> * All the debs were in /var/cache... but were not installed.

You didn't get to the second stage install due to the earlier problems.

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 - mdz