Re: Ubuntu mad about no floppy?

Royce Williams wrote, on 8/28/2007 10:33 AM:
> bryanm@acsalaska.net wrote, on 8/27/2007 10:21 PM:
>> On Mon, August 27, 2007 8:30 am, Royce Williams wrote:
>>> I'm experiencing this oddity/bug during the kernel load when booting
>>> from the Ubuntu 7.04 Workstation install CD on my Inspiron 3800:
>>>
>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/casper/+bug/97306
>>>
>>> Does anyone know how to tell the installer CD kernel to not probe for
>>> the floppy, or have any other ideas about what I could try?
>>
>> Have you tried doing a text install?
>
> I (foolishly) assumed that I could do a text-mode install using the
> standard Install CD. Only after reviewing
> ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download again did I spot the bit that says:
>
> "Check here if you need the alternate desktop CD. This CD does not
> include the Live CD, instead it uses a text-based installer."

To close this thread: the alternate CD worked fine, even with the
floppy enabled-but-missing. It was also orders of magnitude faster.

Royce

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