I've dealt with Red Hat and SuSE, and it's only when I have changed to the "User Friendly" Linux version that I am becoming suicidal over getting the @#$#&%#!$&! install completed!
Okay, here's where we are. Downloaded Kubuntu CD, burned, dropped into machine, loaded. Select "Run or Install", GUI comes up, looks pretty. Switch to console, created root password, plus a user to log in with. Adjusted my screen settings so windows were all visible. So far, happy camper.
(And please, let's not get bogged down with the logging in as 'root' debate: nobody wins, and I haven't got the time...)
Select 'Install' from the menu. It asks for a root password, trying to initialize the /usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity app. I type in the root password I *just* created, it tells me it's the wrong password. So I click 'ignore', but the window just closes and nothing happens. Go through this exercise 10 times, same result.
So I say, all right, I can log in as root and execute the app from the command line. So I log in as my newly-created user, open a console, su over to root, and try to execute the app. It tells me it can't initiate the X console.
I'm no Linux guru by any stretch of the imagination, but for the love of all things Penguin, what the @#$!$$!#$! is going on here? ANY help or hints would be greatly appreciated, I need this install completed this weekend. Thanks in advance.
- Skimbo
Okay, here's where we are. Downloaded Kubuntu CD, burned, dropped into machine, loaded. Select "Run or Install", GUI comes up, looks pretty. Switch to console, created root password, plus a user to log in with. Adjusted my screen settings so windows were all visible. So far, happy camper.
(And please, let's not get bogged down with the logging in as 'root' debate: nobody wins, and I haven't got the time...)
Select 'Install' from the menu. It asks for a root password, trying to initialize the /usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity app. I type in the root password I *just* created, it tells me it's the wrong password. So I click 'ignore', but the window just closes and nothing happens. Go through this exercise 10 times, same result.
So I say, all right, I can log in as root and execute the app from the command line. So I log in as my newly-created user, open a console, su over to root, and try to execute the app. It tells me it can't initiate the X console.
I'm no Linux guru by any stretch of the imagination, but for the love of all things Penguin, what the @#$!$$!#$! is going on here? ANY help or hints would be greatly appreciated, I need this install completed this weekend. Thanks in advance.
- Skimbo
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