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password-gorilla package

Being asked for password on installation. What password!!!

Asked by David Cusack

I'm trying to install Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS Desktop Edition from a CD I was sent by Ubuntu.
I can't get past the request for user name and password.
The user name is filled in already as "administrator" but where do I get the password from?
When I use my normal non-secure password for downloaded programs (ie not my banking and shopping passwords", it's doesn't work.
I read some of the earlier answers, which seemed to suggest using the user name as the password, but "administrator" doesn't work either.
I'm at a loss.
I use computers all the time, but I don't understand the inner workings at all.
Thanks

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David Cusack (ddjcusack) said : 		#1

I think I solved the password problem because .. ah never mind how and why. I finally got into the program and as soon as it was installed alongside windows, it started to download the 700meg file from Ubuntu. The whole point of getting the CD was to avoid more than 3 hours of downloading, which cannot resume it it stops. So I'm now on my third attempt to download and I'm getting a bit frustrated. If I've got the damn CD why should it also try to download the whole 700 megs?

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#2

I think because you are installing Ubuntu via wubi...

What is Wubi

Wubi Ubuntu installation
Wubi http://wubi-installer.org/, is a Ubuntu installer for Windows. ( Windows UBuntu Installer ) WUBI
Wubi installer is a good method, but not the best, to install and try Ubuntu for Windows user, using an easy way.
Wubi installer don't make a real ext3 filesystem partition, separated isolated from Windows, it create a big file into the windows filesystem and install Ubuntu in it, so if you have problems into Windows partition (viruses, filesystem corruption) you can damage and loose all the installed Ubuntu.

Ubuntu installation
Boot the pc and install Ubuntu from Ubuntu live install cd, is the usual and best way to install Ubuntu in dual boot mode. (Ubuntu is installed not using Windows)
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/I386
install Ubuntu 8.04.1 https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GraphicalInstall

Hope this helps

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David Cusack (ddjcusack) said : 		#3

To Angela and Marcobra:
Thank you all very much for all your help as I tried to install Ubuntu.
But, I have decided to stop trying, as for me it is just too complicated.
As I have said before, while I USE computers all the time, I HAVE NO CLUE as to how they work, so when you use technical
terms as above, I simply do not have a clue what you are talking about.
It's like teaching someone a foreign language, and only using that foreign language!
Marcobra, I know you were being heplful, and I do appreciate your time and expertise, but I don't have that expertise, and your answer was way over my head.
But before I finish this epic, can someone please tell me why, if I got the CD from Ubuntu, when I'm installing it,
it still needs to download 700megs from Ubuntu. If it needs to get 700megs from Ubuntu, why bother getting the disk in the first place?
Also, with my download manager showing that I have d/l 700megs, the finished program on the desktop is only just under 70megs?
About 10% of what was supposed to be downloaded???
Also I saw somewhere on Ubuntu website that there is a program that checks the download, to make sure everything is ok.???
But now I can't find it.

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#4

@David
1) - shutdown your pc.
2) - put it into cdrom reader
3) - your pc MUST boot from Ubuntu install cd and you must see:

- a select languge list, choose your lpreferred languge
- Then you MUST see the first Ubuntu menu this: http://lifehacker.com/assets/resources/2008/03/ubuntu_load.jpg

You must don't see your pc starting from Windows.

Please choose "Try Ubuntu withou any change to your computer"

Then ask here to install options.

Hope this helps

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