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Re: Ubuntu

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From: John Savage
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:51
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Hugo <s4176355@student.uq.edu.au> writes:
>i'm having trouble installing ubuntu on my system.
>when i first tried to install it came up with FD0 errors, i found this 
>was because i didnt have a floppy disk drive, so i disabled a floppy 
>drive in the bios. now when i go to install it, it goes to a command ine 
>interface and i dont know what to do from there. i have tried the disk 
>in another computer and it runs fine, i got the live bot working on it.

I'd guess that it hasn't got a driver for your graphics card, or finds
something amiss when it tries to detect your graphics. Beyond this, I
can't help.

There is a group alt.os.linux.ubuntu, but it is not archived by google.
-- 
John Savage                (my news address is not valid for email)
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From: John Savage <rookswood@suburbian.com.au>
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Subject: Re: Ubuntu
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