Re: My Trouble Starting Ubuntu 12.04?

2012-04-03 Thread Peter Vágner
Hello, On 2.4.2012 19:13, Krishnakant Mane wrote: I hear the drums sound. As I mentioned before, I wait for about 3 or 4 minutes and select try Ubuntu by just pressing tab and then enter. I am instead pressing ctrl+s to start orca on this screen and then alt+tabbing to the installer window

Re: My Trouble Starting Ubuntu 12.04?

2012-04-03 Thread Peter Vágner
] On Behalf Of Peter Vágner Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2012 4:39 AM To: Krishnakant Mane Cc: Ubuntu Accessibility Subject: Re: My Trouble Starting Ubuntu 12.04? Hello, On 2.4.2012 19:13, Krishnakant Mane wrote: I hear the drums sound. As I mentioned before, I wait for about 3 or 4 minutes and select try

My Trouble Starting Ubuntu 12.04?

2012-04-02 Thread Dave Hunt
Yah, I know, I said I'm giving up, but have trouble doing that. LOL. When I put 12.04 onto a flash drive, I used the unetbootin program, and gave the system as much persistent space as the drive's capacity will allow. When I start the resulting system, I never get the chance to choose an

Re: My Trouble Starting Ubuntu 12.04?

2012-04-02 Thread Krishnakant Mane
hi Dave, Wondering what has gone wrong? I tryed my usb pen drive both on a netbook and on a machine with I5 processor with 3 gb ram. My netbook has 2gb ram. I made the disk with a sighted assistant using the USB startup disk creater. I absolutely have no problems. I hear the drums sound. As I

Re: My Trouble Starting Ubuntu 12.04?

2012-04-02 Thread Krishnakant Mane
Hi Charlie, YOu are right, when the try Ubuntu screen comes I get the drum sound. And since I had pressed ctrl + s during the first drum sound, I get Orca talking every time I use the bootable pen drive. I even here it tell me details about Try Ubuntu screen. Happy hacking. Krishnakant. On

Re: My Trouble Starting Ubuntu 12.04?

2012-04-02 Thread Dave Hunt
Hi, I think the system was booting when I used the unetbootin method, but the thing was acting as if I'd done an install from the cd to a flash drive, and by-passed the special session from which I could install. It brought me into a session with Unity 3d, and I could, sometimes, start orca.

Re: My Trouble Starting Ubuntu 12.04?

2012-04-02 Thread Charlie Kravetz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 2 Apr 2012 17:15:07 -0400 (EDT) Dave Hunt ka1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I think the system was booting when I used the unetbootin method, but the thing was acting as if I'd done an install from the cd to a flash drive, and by-passed the

Re: My Trouble Starting Ubuntu 12.04?

2012-04-02 Thread Bill Taylor
On 04/03/2012 07:41 AM, Charlie Kravetz wrote: /snip As for keeping /home from Trisquel 5.5, I am hoping someone jumps in with the right answer. I am not familiar enough with it to say yes or no. I have just updated Vinux 3.0.2 Beta to Vinux 3.0.2 on several boxes. I installed 3.0.2,

Re: My Trouble Starting Ubuntu 12.04?

2012-04-02 Thread Christopher Chaltain
On 02/04/12 16:15, Dave Hunt wrote: Assuming I ever get a sysgem that has reliable accessibility, and no components crash, can I install this to my hard drive, leaving my user data in place? If, for instance, I choose the 'advanced' option in the installer, can I just tell the insaller to

Re: My Trouble Starting Ubuntu 12.04?

2012-04-02 Thread Peter Vágner
Hello, I recommend you to play with live cd a bit whether the crashes are reproducible and try reporting if thats indeed possible in such a broken state you are getting. I know you can choose where to install grub during the install as well as choosing existing partitions with their mount