New to Edubuntu, install trouble

[Karl Goetz]

On Sat, 2007-10-06 at 12:07 -0400, Kathy Iler wrote:
> Hi, in our classroom last year, we had used Fedora 5 on all our computers.
> We have slower equipment and I found things slow and hard to manage in this
> Linux distribution. I am a newbee to Linux.
> 
> This year, I was excited to find Edubuntu and its manageability in the
> classroom with the server setup. I have been searching for a solution for
> finishing installation on 5 of our computers, which are all Dell OPTIPLEX
> 150 WITH 512MB. All of them receive an error on installing: /bin/sh  can't
> access tty job control off  initramfs
> I've used 7.04 and tried live cd of ubuntu, get the same error. I updated
> the bios and the chipset and still no luck.
> 
> Please help!  I really want to use Edubuntu and this is half of the
> computers we have. 
> 

Do you have spare bandwidth? I suggest downloading both 6.06 and 7.10
beta and trying them.
I've come accross a couple of systems that refuse to install under
feisty that work under both of the meantioned systems.
hope it helps,
kk

> Thanks,
> Kathy
> 
> 
> 
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Karl Goetz,
Debian user / Ubuntu contributer / gNewSense contributer
http://www.kgoetz.id.au