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    Again Total Disaster

    After using 8.04 for months in an Acer T-135 Desktop, I tried upgrading to 8.10 beta ...I ended up having to re-install 8.04 (BTW - 8.04 has always been flawless for me) After a couple of weeks; once I read that certain issues had been addressed, I tried again on another computer (Toshiba M35 2GB RAM laptop) and had severe problems as on my Acer T-135 Desktop. Again I deleted all.
    The other day the news came in that 8.10 was officially released. I liked both the visuals shown and what I read. So last night I downloaded the 3.6GB ISO...after download, everything checked out fine. This morning I saved anything of importance in 8.04 to do a clean install on the Acer and the installation hangs at "checking system battery" and stays there. So I figured I would give it a 4th chance and try on the Toshiba again. No such luck - on this one does not hang on checking battery - it just hangs while showing list of what it's installing. I was hoping this release would be working better than the initial beta versions did...at least with the initial beta, I was actually seeing more stuff

    It seemed too quick for this release hype when so many are still having issues with Intrepid. Is the Ubuntu version having as many bugs ?
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    Re: Again Total Disaster

    I don't know if this is of any help or not, but I had trouble and found that 8.10 will not work if you have a both of SATA and ATA drives in the computer. At least it won't if the install drive is a ATA.

    wmrobins
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      Re: Again Total Disaster

      only one drive on both computers...just tried installing on a third computer LOL. This one is a no-name with a gigabyte mobo...I did get closer to an install with this one...at least to the point of seeing "KDE 4,1" on screen and a few icons in the center of the screen ! Then hangs there as I see a spectacular view of my mouse pointer icon multiplying itself and filling up the screen... this gave me a great idea for a screen saver

      PS: i've run out of computers !!
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        Not wanting to give up, I downloaded the smaller cd version to try out just in case there was an issue with the other one...and still is not installing in any of my computers. The strange thing is that at each attempt, it fails at different stages of the install...making it hard for me to pinpoint what the problem might be.
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          Re: Again Total Disaster

          Originally posted by Dart

          at each attempt, it fails at different stages of the install...
          That is the classic symptom of a bad CD burn. Did you set the burn speed at 4X? If so, you might need to try a different CD burner to make the CD on, and maybe try a different brand of blank media.
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            Re: Again Total Disaster

            yes, I would agree
            ...but both the cd and the dvd iso were burned on different drives on 2 seperate computers. Both were burned @ 4X ...same media as always used since I had purchased 200 of the CD and 200 of the DVD ...and burned a few OS's with these including the sacred 8.04.1

            ps: they were both downloaded from torrents.
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              Re: Again Total Disaster

              Originally posted by dibl
              Originally posted by Dart

              at each attempt, it fails at different stages of the install...
              That is the classic symptom of a bad CD burn. Did you set the burn speed at 4X? If so, you might need to try a different CD burner to make the CD on, and maybe try a different brand of blank media.
              Interestingly I downloaded the 8.10 live CD and burned with K3b setting the burn speed at 4X but it still went ahead and burned at 10X. However the burn is legit and passed the verification and testing on my desktop.See attached:
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                Re: Again Total Disaster

                I burned both using k3b also and both verified fine after burn...this is why I'm stumped about this...DL'ed Ubuntu version and everything loads up fine, so I'm assuming this must be a kde issue.
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                  Re: Again Total Disaster

                  ooops...spoke too soon about Ubuntu 8.10...loads for live - but for install just hangs like Kubuntu 8.10
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                    Re: Again Total Disaster

                    Hi All

                    I am just going to add to the list of those who can't get 8.10 going.
                    I was running a perfectly stable version of 8.04.
                    I updated it fully and then (foolishly) hit the upgrade button to 8.10.
                    Everything seemed to go well. All the boxes were ticked and then I rebooted to finalise the install and get into 8.10.
                    The login screen (very nice) comes up but the mouse cursor is frozen and so is the keyboard.
                    Both mouse and keyboard are recieving power from the computer.
                    After trying all the safeboot menu options and nothing is working, I am stumped.

                    HELP!!!!!

                    Cheers

                    Malai5
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