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...And thus ends my experience with Kubuntu. At least for now.



 It wouldn't bring up XWindows.  I just got a blank screen. 

In safe graphics mode, I (after a few tries) got a blue background and a 
white cursor for a few seconds, then that died, too.  I end up back at 
the text mode list of starting processes, the last one being 
/etc/rc.local, but nothing happens after that. 

Yes, I verified the media. 
Yes I burned a second disk and got the same results. 

Graphics card is an evga GeForce 8600 GT.  Apparently, I'm not alone. 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/dell/+bug/121163

Maybe I'll try it again some day on another machine (like my existing 
server, once the new one is online.  I am *so* not doing a text-mode 
install. 

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