Problems with Ubuntu.


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So I used Ubuntu a few years back and really liked it but felt it wasn't going to work for me at the time so I moved back to Windows. Today I decided to give it a try again and I downloaded the beta for 8.04. everything went fine buy when I tried to install it I was prompted by a black screen with what looks like the desktop smashed and the top of my monitor. I also tried the Live-CD but it just seems to lock up about halfway through loading the desktop... Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong?

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So I used Ubuntu a few years back and really liked it but felt it wasn't going to work for me at the time so I moved back to Windows. Today I decided to give it a try again and I downloaded the beta for 8.04. everything went fine buy when I tried to install it I was prompted by a black screen with what looks like the desktop smashed and the top of my monitor. I also tried the Live-CD but it just seems to lock up about halfway through loading the desktop... Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong?

http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/hardy/beta

Scroll down to the "Caveats" section, and see if the suggested fix helps you. I think it's a bug in the beta.

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did you try choosing the VGA safe mode option when booting off the disc?
Just did and everything is up and running now :) I was wondering if the updates it would like me to install are real updates and not down grades since I'm on the beta version of Ubuntu?
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You will have update everyday and at the end, your beta will tuen into stable version, but you may have to download several hundred of mb before that, some day it can be up to 75.

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You will have update everyday and at the end, your beta will tuen into stable version, but you may have to download several hundred of mb before that, some day it can be up to 75.
Ah, fun times :yes:
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