New System Problem

[Brian McKee]

On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 1:13 AM, Pastor JW
<pastor_jw at the-inner-circle.org> wrote:
> On Wednesday 13 August 2008 08:08:19 pm Young wrote:
>> I just built a new system and installed Ubuntu 8.04.01-alternate-amd64.
>>
>> The system boots into a fractured graphics image with the Ubuntu logo
>> repeating 5 times across the screen. Each repeat is just horizontal
>> lines like a bad version of the AT&T globe logo. There's also a lot of
>> garbage on the screen, and no evidence of a cursor pointer.
> I am not understanding at all.  If you have the graphics ability, why in the
> world are you using the alternate install which does not support graphics???
> The reason for the alternate install is to put Ubuntu on a machine which has
> limited or obsolete graphics abilities such as older boxes and/or server
> boxes.

The alternate install is not for limited boxes or reduced graphics.
It has different installation options, that's all

Perhaps you are thinking of the server install which doesn't install
graphics by default?

Brian