Unable to use Ubuntu 8.04 live CD

[Jerry Alber]

NoOp wrote:
> On 07/29/2008 01:29 PM, Jerry Alber wrote:
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>> I have tried the Ubuntu 8.04 Sixpack, Ubuntu 8.04 double sided DVD for 
>> both 32 and 64 bit, the "official" Ubuntu 8.04 CD and downloaded a 
>> Ubuntu 8.04 iso file, all with the same results of asking for a User ID 
>> and a Password.
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> None of this makes any sense... I'm not implying that you are wrong,
> just that it doesn't make any sense for any of the CD's or DVD to ask
> for a userid and password unless of course you are installing from and
> then they ask as part of setting up a new user.  This is your's correct?
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/39033
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> During the setup process it asks for a User ID and a Password
> </quote>
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> Where _exactly_ are you being asked for the UID and password? During the
> installation? If so, that is normal; you need to give Ubuntu a user name
> and password for the user that you are setting Ubuntu up for during the
> installation process. There is no _preset_ username and password, you
> are telling Ubuntu "I want to set up this user with this password".
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> Perhaps these will help:
> https://help.ubuntu.com/8.04/installation-guide/i386/index.html
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GraphicalInstall
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/I386
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NoOp,

I used "Try Ubuntu without any change to your computer" which is part of 
the live CD. It should not be asking for a User ID and Password. I've 
used Knoppix live CD(many different version) and also Kubuntu. They all 
behave as they should. When the User ID window said "The user ubuntu 
will be logged in in 10 seconds" if I let it go, it would go to a window 
with the Hardy Heron logo and 2 folders in the upper left hand corner: 
Examples and Install. If I clicked on either one, it took me right back 
to the User ID window.

I tried installing this version (8.04) to an empty partition and was 
asked for a User ID and a Password, which I entered. However it would 
not accept the user id or password. After going to another partition, I 
mounted the one where Ubuntu 8.04 had supposedly been installed and 
after going to the boot directory, I found that there was no grub, just 
the boot. The only successful install I got was on another computer 
where I used the whole hard drive.

Jerry
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