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Re: can't install debathena workstation natty alpha
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoffrey Thomas)
Tue Jul 5 21:08:00 2011
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2011 21:07:48 -0400 (EDT)
From: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@MIT.EDU>
To: Alex T Prengel <alexp@mit.edu>
cc: testers@mit.edu, jdreed@mit.edu
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On Tue, 5 Jul 2011, Alex T Prengel wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I ran into what looks like the same issue reported by rcowlagi today.
>
> First off, I couldn't do a fresh, Natty install from an iso on VMWare
> Fusion on my MacBook Pro. I don't know if this is a known issue, but I
> kept getting "fatal installer error" crashes with reboots resulting in
> black screens. Googling revealed various people reporting the Fusion
> graphics system can't deal with Unity, but I didn't see any obvious way
> to do a non-graphical or non-Unity install. So I installed Maverick and
> upgraded, and that seemed to work.
Unity should disable itself somewhat-gracefully (i.e., you log in, it says
Unity won't work and sends you back to the login screen with instructions
to select "Ubuntu Classic") if you don't have graphics support -- this
worked for me under KVM.
You can use the alternate CD for a non-graphical install, but I'm a bit
curious where the install failed -- could you not even boot the Natty live
CD? (Admittedly I did use the alternate installer on my VM.)
--
Geoffrey Thomas
geofft@mit.edu
