can not log on when running off cd

Hello,

When you insert the CD in your drive and reboot, you should get a menu and select the Try ubuntu option from it. If you do that, you should not be asked for any login information.

Please make sure you've downloaded the CD image from http://www.ubuntu.com

Hope this helps,
Cheers,

Nicolas

I have tried both versions - 64bit and 386 desktop. Still getting the log on screen and no option to by pass this or set up a user name and password.

I've had this problem before. In my case, the Live Ubuntu was not able to load certain files that are needed to create the Live user session. It should be either the CD is defective or the CDROM isn't working as well as it should.

Since you tried with 2 different CDs with same results, I suspect it's your CDROM drive. Do you have another machine that you could test out the 2 CDs with to verify this?

I just tried it with the other CD drive and log on screen comes up and can get pass it to try out running ubuntu from cd.

For what ever reason it just will not work on my

Emachine T6212

CPU: AMD Athlon™ 64 3200+ Processor (with AMD 64 technology)
(2GHz, 2000MHz System Bus, 512KB L2 cache)
Operating System:
Genuine Microsoft® Windows® XP Home (SP2)
Chipset:
ATI Radeon® Xpress 200
Memory:
1GB DDR 400MHz Dual Channel
Hard Drive:
160GB HDD – 7200rpm, 2MB cache
Optical Drive:
HP dvd 1041i20x DVD±RW multi-format double layer; and 48x CD-ROM
Media Reader:
8-in-1 Media Reader
Secure Digital™ (SD), Smart Media, Compact Flash, Micro Drive, Memory Stick®, Memory Stick PRO, Multimedia Card, USB 2.0
Video:
ATI Radeon® Xpress 200 (PCI-Express® )
128MB shared video memory
Sound:
6-channel Audio
Network:
10/100Mbps built-in Ethernet
Modem:
56K ITU v.92-ready Fax/Modem

I did notice that the following errors showed up on startup screen:
245.741480] butter I/O error on device d0 Logical block 0
283.798358] butter I/O error on device d0 Logical block 0

everything seems to load ok, drivers and devices are found.

I still getting the log on screen and can NOT get past it to try out Ubuntu.

I still want to look Ubuntu over and see if its worth putting on a computer.

I want to thank all that have responded to this problem.

I admit I'm stumped. Your machine is newer than mine so it shouldn't have issues with the optical drive.

Can you try generating md5 checksums of the CD you burned against the ones provided on the Ubuntu site? Just a basic check to be on the safe side

I think this is some how connected with the hard drives and/or IDE controller, when I unplug the prower to the hard drives I can almost get the cd to install Ubuntu on a SD card. Having problems with the partitions running out of space on a 1gb card.

Again, I want to thank all that have responded to this problem.

I may start looking for an old computer to install Ubuntu on.

I fixed up an old computer and installed Ubuntu and it's working great.

Thanks to every one who help me out.

Daniel