Hi The only way that I've been able to install ubuntu on my pentium-m laptop is this bizare sequence:
1) Install server on laptop After install boot fails with a register dump 2) install server on a desktop machine 3) apt-get the generic image (not the server!) 4) boot the lappie on knoppix. copy the generic kernel, initrd, modules from desktop 5) boot the lappie, install ubuntu-desktop OK nearly all good apt-get the latest generic kernel fails (mkinitramfs tools dependencies) The real problem is that despite wearing all desktop clothes the lappie 'knows' it's a server. How, where do I change the personality from server to desktop? BTW the problem is common to 6.06, 6.10 and feisty-beta In every case live CD boots, displays a screen about gnome-error (message, network ?) and there is a pretty desktop, mouse-that-moves and is unresponsive to anything else eg install (icon highlights, click does pretty much nothing. This lappy installs SuSE 10.2 without any fuss, and as a server seems to run perfectly (with the hand-crafted generic kernel, the server kernel gives a register dump) James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
