Unlucky install report

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 12:26:15PM +0300, Peter Damoc wrote:

> Well... first let me apologize for not taking a pen and paper and writing  
> it all down as is it actually happen, I'll just use my poor memory.
> 
> 1. I've arrived home, entered my XP installation, verified that I don't  
> have anything important on C: drive.
> 2. Rebooted the machine with Hoary install CD in my drive.
> 3. Went and got a bowl of popcorn and the last of my Stella Artois
> 4. Hoary booted and it said that I should hit Enter, I did and nothing  
> happened. What the heck! I tried entering something else, no luck, my  
> keyboard was dead. BTW i have a wireless USB Logitech iTouch Keyboard and  
> mouse. After trying various things I found a solution: change the USB slot  
> in which the keyboard was plugged. (I shouldn't have had to do that!)

There isn't much that Ubuntu can do about this; your BIOS has control of the
keyboard at this point.

> 5. I've installed Hoary and the single most annoying thing was the fact  
> that it assumed that I have to have an internet.

It does not assume any such thing; please describe the problem that you
experienced rather than suggesting a possible cause.

> 6. After install I'm presented with a nice 640x480 screen which looked  
> pretty cool on my 17' LCD. What the heck part 2.

A seventeen-foot LCD?  That must have been expensive! ;-)

http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/DebuggingXAutoconfiguration

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 - mdz