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Running from live CD get login screen (beginner)

Asked by lildevil13

i have a laptop ACER Aspire 1642WLMi. i've tried the ubuntu 6.10 live cd and it works fine and even possible to install it into a virtual machine over windowsXP.
I'm actually trying to get use to linux before really installing it !

I've download UBUNTU & KUBUNTU 7.04 and burned it on cds.
 UBUNTU - After the splash screen it loads the kernel etc... then i got a login screen??? y so? i've tried the cd on my friend laptop (Fujitsu-Amilo) and another desktop computer and it loads without any login screen! and works really fine . i've tried so many login name and password, no one works :(
Kubuntu - after the splash screen when it starts loading it freeze ... i've tried the cd on a friend laptop and once more it work really fine !

i've made a memory test from UBUNTU cd and no error found (> 3hrs)
i've made a memory test from a boot cd that i've got from microsoft website and no error found! (>1hr)

ON the virtual machine when trying to load UBUNTU & KUBUNTU 7.04 it freezes when it start loading.

Plz can anybody help me !

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Riku Eskelinen (kingi89) said : 		#1

Is it a text console login you're seeing or graphical one?

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lildevil13 (quinsley) said : 		#2

it is a graphical login screen..

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Riku Eskelinen (kingi89) said : 		#3

You could try with username ubuntu and without password.

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lildevil13 (quinsley) said : 		#4

i've tried it but it doesnt work.
i've tried many combination possible such as :
L:guest P:"blank"
L:ubuntu P:"blank"
L: ubuntu P: ubuntu
L: guest p: guest
L: root P: "blank"
L: root P:root

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Markus Thielmann (thielmann) said : 		#5

I found a simimlar post from someone who had the same problem. A good idea would be to run the alternate desktop installation cd.

You'll find it under http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download, just click "Check here if you need the alternate desktop CD. This CD does not include the Live CD, instead it uses a text-based installer."

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zdravkos (zdravko.skeledzic) said : 		#6

I have the same problem (downloaded the CD iso from http://releases.ubuntu.com.ba/feisty/ubuntu-7.04-desktop-i386.iso), and I tried about 50 different combinations... and since I have windows xp on the machine, I even entered username and password for that... but no result. Help...

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Djassi Fonseca (djassi) said : 		#7

I have the same problem, I CANNOT Login it gives me the same display. could it be that my machine is formatted with Windows' NTFS and it can't write to the disk, and therefore cannot create the login username and password??
please help.

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