[TAG] The all new Ubuntu.... Did I say something wrong?

[David Richardson]

On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 02:22:59PM -0400, clarjon1 wrote:
> Hey gang!
> 
> I'm going to keep this as short, and concise, as I can.  Here goes:
> 
> I got some Ubuntu CDs yesterday!  10 Dapper Drake 6.06 LTS, with 2
> sheets of 4 bumper stickers!  Got them from shipit.ubuntu.com
> 
> Of course, I booted it up... :D  They really improved the look and
> feel of it.  Of course, I want to install it, right?  I'm done with
> gaming for now, now that most of the games I play (emulators) work
> good under Linux natively or via Wine.  So, I start the install
> program.  For those who have used breezy badger, you would expect me
> to use the install CD.  The Dapper drake allows you to install from
> the live cd -- Only one CD required to ship now.  So, I started the
> install.  It asked me for a language, my timezone, and then my
> keyboard layout.  I thought to myself, This is so easy!  Boy, did I
> let Murphy and his law come in there.  After the correct (i.e default)
> keyboard layout was selected, i clicked next.  And that's the end of
> the story.  Not a single error message, the non-greyed out buttons and
> text input boxes are still allowing input.  But on that window,
> anywhere other than the text input, is the little "i'm thinking" mouse
> pointer.  But nothing happens.  The CD isn't being read from, and the
> swap partition isn't showing any signs of being used.  Any help would
> be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks!

>From the release notes for 6.06.1 maintenance release, dated 10 August
2006:

"Over 300 post-release updates have been pre-applied, so that fewer
updates will need to be downloaded after installation, and a number of
bugs in the installation system have been corrected."

I suspect that you may have been bitten by one of the installer bugs.
May I suggest trying a 6.06.1 install?
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