Assistance installing Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS

[Donna Windom]

Thank you Chris,
I followed your suggestion, but I didn't get a whole bunch of packages
to download. The last few lines read:

ubuntu-desktop is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and  0 not upgraded.

On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 12:31, Chris MacDonald <chris at fourthandvine.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Donna Windom <dewdrops3 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello.
>> I wiped a 40GB HDD and then partitioned it using Gdisk so that I could
>> install Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS. My PC at home would not recognize the hdd.
>> I removed the hdd and placed it in a computer at work that has
>> multiple bays. Using the Ubuntu CD I downloaded, I was able to run
>> Ubuntu from the CD and navigate using the graphical user interface.
>> Then I loaded WindowsXP and installed the Ubuntu files to the 40GB
>> hdd. After restarting I have the option to run WindowsXP or Ubuntu. I
>> chose Ubuntu, but instead of getting the easy to navigate GUI, I get
>> the following after logging in:
>>
>> username at ubuntu:~$
>>
>> Is there a way to have a graphical user interface instead of the command line?
>>
>> I removed the hdd with XP installed and tried to boot from the Ubuntu
>> hdd, but I get a non system disk error message. I'm not sure how to
>> troubleshoot this on my own because this is my first try at Linux and
>> I'm not experienced using command line.
>>
>> Thank you for any help.
>>
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>
> I'd need to know a little more to know what happened for sure, but you
> can try running this once you're logged in:
>
> sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop
>
> and it will ask for your password. What this is doing is calling a
> package manager (apt) to install the ubuntu-desktop meta-package which
> contains the nice desktop user interface you're probably used to. If
> the command then lists a whoooole bunch of packages to download and
> install, it's safe to say that for some reason the installation you
> did prior didn't cover the UI (why, again, I'd need more info). If you
> do see a bunch of installable packages, it's safe to say 'yes' to
> install, wait a bit until it's done, then reboot and you should be
> fine.
>
> If, on the other hand, no packages are suggested for installation it
> may be a configuration issue. Try the above, and if it doesn't work
> I'm sure the list will have other suggestions.
>
> Chris
>
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