Feisty Fawn Installation Problems

[NoOp]

On 06/27/2007 10:45 AM, Mike Adolf wrote:
> I have been using Linux for years and now my wife decided to dump 
> windows and asked me to install Linux on her Averatec 3150 laptop. 
> Great! I'll just install the same one I am using. Wrong!  I tried to 
> install Ubuntu 7.04. It took a long time for the live CD to boot and 
> when I tried to install, 40 minutes later I was on step 3 of 7.  I
> was afraid to continue and let it repartition hda for a dual boot.
> So, I downloaded Kubuntu 7.04. It was a little faster, but just
> before the CD finished booting I got an error stating that the
> process that supported the file manager died. I ended up going back
> to kubuntu 6.10, which installed normally except it can not see my
> wireless card.
> 
> Firstly, any Ideas why the installers failed? I really would prefer 
> Ubuntu 7.04 which installed flawlessly on my Dell xps 410. Maybe I
> could set aside a few hours and try the 7.04 installer again. Since
> Linux has already been installed, maybe it won't need to repartition
> hda. But maybe after it installed, it would also be slow. Who knows!
> 
> Secondly, any hints on solving the wireless problem.  Windows shows
> the wireless card as "11Mbps WM 168b USB Module". Also, this might be
>  related. When running the kcmshell, I always get the message "Bad
> device 168, Major opcode 145, Minor opcode 3, but kcmshell then does
> what I want.
> 
> One more thing, in kubuntu 6.10 how do you change the grub boot
> order?
> 
> Mike
> 

Download the 7.04 Alternate CD (http://releases.ubuntu.com/feisty/) and
reinstall from there.
Instructions:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/I386