Kubuntu Linux

First boot problems >_<

Hi everyone, it's been awhile hasn't it? Well, I'll just cut to the chase here so I can keep ripping my ever-balding head, mmkay? Today I burned myself a working ISO CD of Kubuntu, eager to try it out. The Live CD had worked great, and I was eager to get started with the real deal! Anyway, I install Kubuntu on my 80-gig external HDD (not wanting to risk repartitioning my C-drive), and it all goes smoothly. Packages unpack, install, etc. Anyway, it tells me to take out the CD, and reboot the system to finish installation. I do so, and boot into it (with GRUB of course), however I run into a problem, and it won't work now

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Mid-process, it loads the modules, and a screen pops up saying, "ALERT! dev/mapper/Ubuntu-root does not exist. Dropping to a shell!"

I've tried everything I know to solve this, and google has yet to solve my woes, but won't anyone from the lovely community of WC help to solve my woes

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kona0197

Join Date 02/2003

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Drop Kubuntu and use Xandros. Xandros has a free version as well. You will love it.

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Thanks, will do!

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Phoon

Join Date 10/2001

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Ever considered VMWare? Works just fantastic for things like this. Heck, I even try out the live CD's with it, AND...
SLAX has a method to install it on a Thumbdrive. Talk about convienient!! It boots from my lil ol 1GB SanDisk Cruizer and runs like a charm on any system that support booting from a usb device.

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ummm....before you give up completely...

Kubuntu is just a KDE desktop on top of Ubuntu. Ubuntu normally installs with the Gnome desktop. That error sounds as though the install didn't properly install the Ubuntu portion.

Just a thought...Ubuntu is a great distribution of Linux...using it now. Try doing an ISO of Ubuntu, give it a run, see how you like it's Gnome desktop. You can use the Synaptic Package Manager to install the KDE desktop if you really want to.

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