Lucid LiveCD

[Karl Larsen]

On 04/30/2010 09:10 AM, J wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 10:13, Karl Larsen<klarsen1 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>    
>>      I d/l the real 10.04 .iso for a Desktop 64 bit version like I am
>> now using. I made the cd-rom and ran it.
>> The way it starts out is simply stupid. A panel comes up with 2
>> illegible things at the bottom of the screen. The first time I booted I
>> just waited and after a few moments it came up as if it was going to
>> install right now! I did not want that so I turned off the computer and
>> tried again.
>>
>>      The second time I hit the enter key when the empty panel came up.
>> That got me some where and just poking around with no help I got the old
>> good page where I could test the cd-rom. I did this and it tested good.
>> So my problem is not a bad copy of 10.04.
>>
>>      I think the LiveCD needs work before it will be useful.
>>      
> If you hit esc when the two little widgets are at the bottom of the
> screen, you'll get a boot menu.
>    
     This is why I will file a bug on the installer! All a new user 
needs to do is hit esc before something else happens. In the old days we 
got the boot menu FIRST!

73 Karl





> If you wait instead and read the screen that first opens up (like you
> saw the first time you tried) you'd notice two buttons.  One on the
> top says "Try without installing" or something like that, and the
> bottom one says "Install Ubuntu"
>
> It works as it should.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jeff
>
>    


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