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Re: can't install debathena workstation natty alpha
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Wed Jul 6 14:40:34 2011
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
To: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@mit.edu>
Cc: "testers@mit.edu" <testers@mit.edu>, Jonathan D Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>,
alexp@mit.edu
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Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2011 14:40:23 -0400
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On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 21:07 -0400, Geoffrey Thomas wrote:
> 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.
At some point I got a message that I needed to be running "Ubuntu
Classic" but at no point did I see any obvious place where I could have
chosen that. I was trying multiple things and it's hard to remember
exactly what came up in what sequence. Basically as I recall, when I
opted to install the installer came right up (in graphical mode) and
there was no choice other than to pick installation options.
> 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.)
Well I'm beyond that point now as I installed Maverick and upgraded. I
could boot the CD; and the install failed after it got started and ran
for a few steps; I don't recall exactly which one it was on when it
failed. If I do this again I'll try to keep better track of exactly what
went on. And I'd curious to know if others run into similar problems.
A.
