Re: [xubuntu-users] Trying to install 16.04.3 LTS, reached a place with no way out but the power button :(

[CryptKiddie]

Hi,
Did you keep your Debian? Then you could simply skip the bootloader 
installation and use debians grub to boot your Ubuntu
Lukas

Am 29. November 2017 03:13:33 MEZ schrieb Brian :
>Hi all,
>
>If anybody has any ideas on this one, I would be grateful...
>
>I'm currently using 64-bit Debian Stretch, but was recommended to give
>Ubuntu a try. Since I use XFCE on Debian, I downloaded 64-bit Xubuntu
>16.04.3 LTS via the torrent, verified a correct checksum, burned it to
>a DVD, and attempted an installation.
>
>All appeared to go just fine until I got an error message "Sorry an
>error occurred and it was not possible to install the bootloader in
>the specified location". This was setting the disk configuration
>manually (so as to keep existing data) and I'd selected my first (of
>four) hard drives for the bootloader.
>
>I was left with a screen giving me three options
>
>Choose a different device to install the bootloader on
>
>Continue without a bootloader
>
>Cancel the installation
>
>
>Now, I could select any of my four drives in option 1, or select
>options 2 or 3, but either clicking the OK button (or hitting ALT-O)
>with ANY of the above permutations had no effect. It *appeared* that
>the button was being pressed, i.e. it gave that appearance when
>clicked or ALT-O, but absolutely nothing happened, I just stayed stuck
>at that screen. The only way out that I could find was to hit the
>power button (I tried all four drives and all three options). I
>retried the installation once more with the same results, not
>surprisingly.
>
>So, I went back to my Debian Stretch media, and Debian installed again
>without any problem whatsoever, bootloader on the first hard drive. It
>seems to work just fine, that's what I'm running now.
>
>This is on an AMD Phenom II 6-core with 8 GB of memory, plenty of free
>disk space, etc.
>
>It seems very puzzling that the installation procedure does NOT seem
>to have hung, I can change between the three options, or select any of
>the four drives, but I just can't get the installation to run without
>that error, and can find no way out when the error occurs.
>
>Anybody have any ideas, please?
>
>
>Brian.
>
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[xubuntu-users] XFCE4-mixer in Xubuntu?

[Jeffrey Needle]

What happened to it?  It's the only reliable way to set volumes on a
multiple sound card system like mine.  Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks.

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Re: [xubuntu-users] Trying to install 16.04.3 LTS, reached a place with no way out but the power button :(

[Len Philpot]

On Tue, 2017-11-28 at 21:13 -0500, Brian wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> If anybody has any ideas on this one, I would be grateful...
> 
> I'm currently using 64-bit Debian Stretch, but was recommended to give
> Ubuntu a try. Since I use XFCE on Debian, I downloaded 64-bit Xubuntu
> 16.04.3 LTS via the torrent, verified a correct checksum, burned it to
> a DVD, and attempted an installation.
> 

Not directly related, but a new LTS version will be released next April.
If you can't work this issue out, why not try 17.10 and see if it does
better? It'll be supported until 18.04 is available.

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