Comments on: Kubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft) Step By Step Installation with Screenshots

By: steve

steve — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:57:13 +0000

hey guys

im trying to install kubuntu 7.1 on my pc for the first time but im having trouble getting to the third screen…it always comes to a command propt type screen with ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ and waits for a command to be typed in because theres a blinking underscore but im not sure if im supposed to type anything in there or not…

anyhelp is much appreciated

By: Meastro

Meastro — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:26:58 +0000

am gonna install kubutu 9.04 help with that

By: Meastro

Meastro — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:25:08 +0000

Do i have to use the partitions, can i do some thing else please help me….

By: cbl_telecom

cbl_telecom — Sun, 03 May 2009 13:26:25 +0000

Vikas, Jake, and Greg - I had the same problem too.

I Overcame that problem by doing this:

What I did: I reinstalled the Kubuntu OS in Normaal Mode, than I put 3 partitions on my HDD for Kubuntu 8.10 Interpid Ibex (This will also work for other Kubuntu OS Distros. How I did it was that I divided the amount of disk space I had (Let’s Say I Had 82332 MB) by three. I made the first Partition (the Kubuntu OS HDD Space Partition) 27444 MB. Than I made the SWAP Space 2744 MB Also, Than I made another Partition for SWAP Space, Again at 2744 MB (You do not have to make the 3rd partition SWAP Space, You can either leave it for free space, or select another type of partition in the partition list. Than after that, I Let it install. Than when I started the computer, I got a weird Green-Line Screen. Than I hard-booted it down, than started it back up. It went to the screen with KDE 4.0 on it, where it loads the different services, when it stopped doing anything, I just clicked on it, than it just went automatically to the desktop. It might want you to type in your password.
Than after that, I let it sit for about 2 and a half minutes, and then came back. It worked better than ever. If you need to contact me by giving me a post to me on this fourum.

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:28:32 +0000

I want to install Kubuntu 8.04.1, but after the 2nd initializing-screen lines appear in the black screen and after the line: Running local boot scrips (/etc/rc.local) [OK] the cursor just keeps blinking but nothing happens. System freeze?
What could be the cause, and how can it be solved.
When I choose the option to just run it from CD the same thing happens; it does not go on.
Please help..

By: Zachary

Zachary — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 07:57:02 +0000

I installed it alright, but I want to know how to change the order of programs on the boot screen so that Windows is before Kubuntu.
That way, the computer will automatically upload the MS operating system if I dont do anything for 10 seconds after starting up.
Let me know at zgoldste@calpoly.edu

By: greg

greg — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 22:28:35 +0000

when i click on the install icon, the computer goes very slow and does nothing

--i also have this issue.

im going to try reburning the CD, but im having a ton of problems today: first i tried ubuntu, then kubuntu (theyre not supposed to be very different i thought), and first i got an ‘cannot load xserver’ or something like that (had a problem using the display on my laptop), and now it does this unresponsive thing.

greg

By: jake

jake — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:23:52 +0000

hello, im trying to install Kubuntu 7.10 on my laptop and i cant only get to the black screen with the blue kubuntu. thats in and after 10 mins the screen will turn green and stay that way until i shut down the computer. when i reboot it shows i can either choose vista or kubuntu. any answers? email at nenchusplyer24@yahoo.com thanks

By: vikas

vikas — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 11:39:47 +0000

well, when i click on the install icon, the computer goes very slow and does nothing, what should i do??

By: Navap

Navap — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 13:49:23 +0000

Hey,
i actually have already created partitions(3 of them)i want to install it on the one which is primary now…the installion says something like it can’t install on vts or fat systems

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 04:37:33 +0000

Hey everyone,
I am installing Edgy on my laptop and was having the same problem several people here seem to be having. It would get to the second picure shown, but never get to the third. I had to add the command line arguments “-noapic nolapic” to the boot line on screen one. To do this just press F6 when the first screen comes up and then type what is in the quotes. Try that out and see if it works for any of you.
Good Luck

By: trancepose

trancepose — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:06:47 +0000

i have an extraordinary problem. ? start everything just as you said. loading screen is allright. now take a look at the second picture in this page. just try to place green characters at unreadable size in 2 rows, and there are dot like shapes below. those dot-like shapes are almost lighted except several ones at the end. i press random buttons on the keyboard and then enter, then some more are highlighted and it floods to second row. i repeat this several times and it stops at fifth or sixth row. what can be the issue. ? have 3800 X2 processor, one sata and one ide hdd, 3gb ram,x800 gto2. in my case, nothing like eliana’s problems occured

By: Huxley777

Huxley777 — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 09:55:52 +0000

If installation is freezing on you (Eliana & Benjammin’) try unplugging all unnecessary devices, especially USB. Use a serial mouse and keyboard for the install if you have them around, and disconnect the mouse otherwise as you can install using only the keyboard. Don’t forget to unhook your speakers too. Sometimes Linux distros will lock up when autodetecting drivers during install. After you’re finished, you should be able to hook everything back up, turn your computer on, and have no problems with most common hardware.

By: foxhound

foxhound — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 04:19:37 +0000

Hey I’m installing Kubuntu for the first time (did install ubuntu a few times) and I have noticed for the first time that a lot of people suggest creating a partition for the /home root when first installing the OS. I know how to do this but I have no idea how much space I should assign this partition. I’ve got 50GB available for linux issues, i’ve asigned 469 MB for swap, and the remaining GB should be destined to the / and the /home partitions… but which size should I give this last one? I’m in the middle of the installation, so a quick answer would be greatly appreciated!!

thanks in advance
fox.

By: Benjammin'

Benjammin' — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 01:43:09 +0000

I seem to be having the same issue as Eliana. The md5sum checks out, I’ve done a memory scan (took a long, long time..) that checks out, I’ve burned the image twice using different burners.. I don’t know what to do. I’ve been looking for some troubleshooting guides but so far no luck.
Any ideas, anyone?

By: jon norris

jon norris — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 20:39:35 +0000

I upgraded my laptop from Dapper to Edgy. Not bad!
I installed Dapper on my desktop but had such ridiculous problems trying to get ndiswrapper to work (and utilise my Belkin wireless card) that I burned an iso of Edgy and installed that. It didn’t work, then Dapper wouldn’t reinstall - something has screwed up. Eventually got WinXP back on, then Ubuntu. But Kubuntu wont go back on.
Brilliant that you spent time doing this page though!
Is there a faults and solutions page so concisely done?

By: ernie

ernie — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 02:48:12 +0000

To those having install issues, I was also experiencing similar issues. I then added more memory to my system and it resolved the issue. Hope you can get it going!! I love it and have switched all my machines over and love being Microsoft free!!

By: Edgy Iffy

Edgy Iffy — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 05:33:00 +0000

Hey all,

I’m having the exact same problem as Eliana when trying to install Edgy Eft. I’ve double checked my download AND cd burn against their md5 checksums and they all tally. Could someone please offer some help/advice?

Thanks!

By: Andrew Chapman

Andrew Chapman — Mon, 25 Dec 2006 01:40:16 +0000

A bit confusing that ‘ruchi’ created a swap space of only 100MB.

Is it a good idea to create a third partition for /home? Would the mount point for this be /home? If one is using two distributions (say SUSE as well) can they share the same /home directory? What if one has Suse 10.0 which uses Reiser filesystem? What does one do then? Thanks, Andrew

By: my 2 cents

my 2 cents — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 23:47:50 +0000

Two things

Shane is is right, you need a 250 swap space

With setting up networking you told how to setup an ethernet connection what about the people who still use dial up? I had some trouble in getting Kubuntu to recognize my external modem because there was no “resolv.conf” file. You should consider revising this to tell how
one can create a dial up connection and how to create the file (if you know how.hmmmm….come to think of it you probely dont know how to)because this seams to be a problem with this distro