![]() Once done, save it by using File, Save on the menu or clicking the floppy disk. In the first section, which is the default, we need to edit the kernel line to add: Once kate is up, scroll to the very bottom of the editor where you’ll find three sections of “title… kernel… “ etc. Note you may see a few errors on the terminal window. Click on the big K in the lower left (it’s like the Start button in Windows), and go to System, then bring up Konsole.Įnter your password when prompted, and you should be in the kate editor. OK, now it’s time to fix that pesky mouse issue once and for all. Now give it a minute while Kubuntu finishes loading. When the login screen appears, enter your user name and password (the ones you entered on the “Who Are You” screen during the installation) and press enter. What this will do is enable the mouse for this session only! Once we get booted, we’ll fix the mouse permanently, so hang on. Press Enter, then when you return to the screen with “kernel” on it, press ‘b’ (just the letter b) to boot Kubuntu. When the edit screen appears, we need to add the – i8042.noloop to the end of the line. On the next screen, press the down arrow once to highlight the line that begins in “kernel”, then press e again to edit that line. With the top line highlighted, press the e key to edit the command line. ![]() When you get to the screen that talks about the GRUB menu, press the ESCape key. But before you press OK, make sure to read the next step! Don’t forget to eject the CD (or release the ISO) during the reboot. When you get to this screen, just press OK, then reboot Kubuntu. This is similar to the error I got with Ubuntu, just click OK to let it keep going. But it’ll still take a while.Ībout 84% or so into it I got this error. And I have sloooooooooooow hard disks, so your milage (or kilometers) may vary. My experience was a couple of hours, but to be fair I was also playing a couple of Quicktime videos (some of the cool shows from ) and testing an openSuse install in another VPC. If you thought Ubuntu took a while to install, just wait for Kubuntu. OK, Kubuntu finally knows everything it needs in order to install so just hit next.Īnd wait. Make sure to remember your password, not only will you need it to login but you’ll also need it for any commands that need super user privlidges. OK, now we actually have to do some work, and give Kubuntu some info. On the disk space screen, just take the defaults and click next. Select a city in the time zone in which you live, then click Next. In this step you get to play Carmen whats-her-name and do the “Where in the world are you” bit. On the Welcome screen, just confirm your language, then press Next. Once Kubuntu boots, click the install icon on the desktop to begin the installation process. Once your screen looks like the one below, press Enter to continue. To fix the mouse, at least for this session, press F6 for boot options, and type in “i8042.noloop” after the –. ![]() When you fire up the VPC with the Kubuntu disk in the drive (or you’ve captured it’s ISO image), you’ll want to move the highlight down to “Start Kubuntu in safe graphics mode”. Kubuntu has some of the same issues as Ubuntu under Virtual PC when it comes to graphics and the mouse. If you haven’t already done so, you’ll need to download the latest image of Kubuntu, you can get it from. By the way, I’ve reduced the screen sizes a little to make them fit the flow of the blog, but you can click any of them to see them in full size should you need to make out any of the details. Since I’m happy to please, here are the step by step instructions for Kubnutu. After last weeks post on Ubuntu 7.10 ( ), I had several requests for Kubuntu.
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