Originally posted by: flexy
we have several problems here.
I was looking on the ubuntu forum and bug-tracker, and the SAME issue is known for months already, because i saw entries
saying x-server unable to start with Radeon cards from may. Thios bug affect most/all newer radeon cards as far as i saw.
Now we have october.
All the helpful "hints" about installing upgrades or whatever....we just have a problem there:
you CAN NOT UPDATE any files or drivers (assuming such updates even EXIST) while running off a live-cd, what should it update ?
Files on ram-disk ??
Sure. I've installed software lots of times while running Knoppix for instance.
What it uses is a layered file system. The base one is compressed file images on the disk. Next layer up is the decompressed stuff your using, then above that is a file system that stores any changes you make. It's all layered so it appears as one file system like you would have on your harddrive.
But to do any installs or significant updates will probably make you run out of aviable "disk space" on the live cdrom pretty quickly unless your using a system with 2 or more gigs.
Also it's quite easy to edit your server text file on a live cdrom. I know your booting from a cdrom, and cdroms suppose to be 'read only' but Live Linux cdrom systems are very very read-writtable. It's just that you loose your changes when you reboot.
So..i come up with the glorious idea there MUST be a way to just boot into that ^!%%!@$%!@ ('scuse me) by chosing
"safe graphics mode" from the install menu.
The solution is not to use the live cdrom at all to install Ubuntu. There are numerious other ways. The live cdrom is just the most convient. The next best way is to use the 'text mode' installation.
See here for screenshots of text mode and live cdrom mode installation.
http://developer.novell.com/wiki/index.php/HOWTO:_Install_Ubuntu
If you go to the download page..
http://ubuntu-releases.cs.umn.edu//6.06/
You'll notice that there is a 'alternate install cd'. This thing is designed for setting up more customized installs for OEM images or using on low-resource PCs. It does not use a gui, it is text mode.
If you want to install it you can install it using that. I've never installed Ubuntu Dapper either way however and I am not sure if you'd end up with the full desktop install. But it's easy enough to do that yourself using Apt-get.
See also the Installation documentation.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation
It describes many different methods of installing Ubuntu. Since it's based on Debian is has a very flexible base on which to use.
ALmost every single f-ing distro I have ever used has more then one method of installing itself. This is because there are about 40 million different combinations of hardware out there and nobody has either the budget nor the support from hardware manufacturers to test them all.
The try to make it easy and most people like GUIs but with GUI systems there is a LOT which can go wrong. So they offer a text-mode way of installation.
I would of told you this earlier, but you seem to have a bad attitude towards things. That's why I told you to try again next year. By that time Ubuntu would of had another relase and had a chance to fix the bug your complaining about.