Karmic Koala installation problem

[pkaplan1 at comcast.net]

Live CD - boot from the cd to a running distribution without making any changes to (installing on) your disk drives. There will be an icon on the running desktop called "Install". (If you download the "alternate" cd from the mirrors, it will boot directly to the installation application and won't take you to a desktop until hard disk installation is complete and you won't see the install icon.) 


Another thought, make a copy of /etc/X11/xorg.conf from your running 9.04 install and copy it to the 9.10 /etc/X11/ directory. I would think if there's an X problem it would only manifest in display problems, but I've seen some flaky X behaviors. 


Paul 


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lewis A. Goliff" <lgoliff at GFNET.com> 
To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> 
Sent: Monday, November 9, 2009 2:08:47 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
Subject: RE: Karmic Koala installation problem 




not sure what you are referring to when you say “live cd”. i created an install cd from the downloaded iso and it ran just fine – no errors. 



LAG 





From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of pkaplan1 at comcast.net 
Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 2:02 PM 
To: Ubuntu user technical support,not for general discussions 
Subject: Re: Karmic Koala installation problem 




Does the live cd run OK? 



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lewis A. Goliff" <lgoliff at GFNET.com> 
To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com 
Sent: Monday, November 9, 2009 1:55:39 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
Subject: Karmic Koala installation problem 


i have tried installing ubuntu 9.10 on a dell latitude d600 on which i had previously installed ubuntu 9.04 without any issues. the first time i ran the upgrade install, the second a clean install. both attempts yielded the same results – 9.10 installs and boots up just fine, but the first time i try to open any of the applications or utilities everything locks up. 



at this point i have successfully reinstall 9.04, which is working fine, but i would really like to move to 9.10. any ideas as to what my problem might be? 



Lewis A. Goliff 
mailto:lgoliff at gfnet.com 


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