Comments | vakkotaur: REJECTED: Failbuntu Flaky Fawn

vakkotaur

REJECTED: Failbuntu Flaky Fawn

Jul 01, 2007 13:00

Last night I did a backup of the data on belgian in preparation for installing Kubuntu (7.04, "Feisty Fawn") on that machine. I didn't go farther than the backup last night, wanting to pause a while and be sure of things. This morning I figured it was time to actually do it.

Well, *ubuntu is not going on belgian. *ubuntu 7.04 ("Feisty Fawn"), ( Read more... )

linux, flaky fawn, livecd bugs, computers, kubuntu, xubuntu, livecd

Comments 6

fiddle_dragon July 1 2007, 18:48:12 UTC

We have Kubuntu running on 5 different machines in our house - the only one that the live cd had a problem installing on was my old desktop computer and that was because of the multiple video cards (on board card and a pci card).

I'm sorry you've had such a hard time with it.

vakkotaur July 1 2007, 18:52:56 UTC

On percheron it's fine, well Xubuntu is. But on belgian it's a non-starter. I got the impression from searching for fixes that with few exceptions it either "just works" or "never works."

invader_tak_1 July 1 2007, 19:09:35 UTC

Running Ubuntu om my dell, its flawless. It just took time getting used to Gnome.

Never liked Kubuntu, its buggy.

invader_tak_1 July 1 2007, 19:11:10 UTC

Seriously if Kubuntu is buggy try Ubuntu once. I love Ubuntu, but I don't think Kubuntu has the developers.

Thread 5

yakko July 2 2007, 02:14:09 UTC

The stupid thing is that when I searched for this fault, no one was able to give a definitive answer as to how to fix it, or even what was causing it.

I have installed feisty (ubuntu) onto a couple of not-very-old Dell laptops and a 3-year-old HP desktop without a hitch. Perhaps giving kubuntu another go after you have deleted all the partitions from the hard drive will set it straight, though I'm as guilty of guessing as those on the forums and mailing lists. It seems to have to do with the installer seeing an "existing Linux install."

On a side note, I'm a bit annoyed that GNOME and KDE still maintain their separate worlds when it comes to apps. So if I like K3B, but run GNOME, I'm penalized when I run it (in the form of large chunks of KDE being dragged in behind the scenes so it can run). I can imagine it's the same story when one tries to run a GNOME app under KDE.