I installed Ubuntu 6.06 on both my laptop and desktop. The installer worked flawlessly on my desktop, but crashed about 10 times on my laptop before I got it installed. It also would not let me set up a separate partition for my home directory on my laptop, but it worked on my desktop. It was nice to boot into a Live CD to install the OS, but it was much slower and buggier than the 5.10 installer. Hopefully they get these issues worked out soon. Desktop P4 2.8 HT 2 gigs RAM ASUS MB Laptop Thinkpad A22m PIII 800 Mhz 256 mb RAM On 6/7/06, Mike Miller <mbmiller at taxa.epi.umn.edu> wrote: > > The desktop installer was buggy, so it took me about 8 tries to get it > right. Maybe the alternative installer would have worked better, but I > did get this one to work. The workarounds aren't hard once you know what > they are. After I got it all figured out (that took a day or so), the > total time to do the installation was probably about 1 hour, but only > about 30 minutes of my time was needed. > > I was installing Xubuntu as the sole OS on an Intel Compaq machine that is > a few years old. This is what I did to get it to work: > > (1) Use gparted live CD to partition the HDD: > > http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php > > I made a 500 MB partition for linux-swap and the remaining volume went to > an ext2 partition. If I used ext3 instead, the installer crashed. When I > used gparted within Xubuntu to partition, it crashed the installer. This > is why I am recommending the gparted live CD. > > (2) Reboot with the Xubuntu CD in the CD drive. > > (3) Wait for the desktop to appear (could take a few minutes). > > (4) Turn off the screen saver (I was told it can cause problems). > (a) right click on desktop and wait for a menu to appear > (b) choose "Settings" in the menu and "Settings Manage" under that > (c) click on the Screensaver icon > (d) in the upper right "mode" menu, choose "Disable Screensaver" > (e) click the 'x' in the upper right of the windows to kill them > > (5) Right click the Install icon on the desktop and choose "Execute" from > the menu that appears (normal clicking or double clicking the icon did not > work for me). > > (6) Follow the simple instructions until you get to the partitioning stage > > (7) In the menu for the partition manager choose "manually edit" and click > "forward" until you get to the menu for mounting. Leave the check marks > on for "Reformat?" in your HDD partitions. This must be done because of a > bug in the installer. > > (8) Let the installer do the installing. It will take a while (30 minutes > for me). > > (9) You can choose to restart when it has completed, but for me it did not > restart correctly and I had to power down. When I turned the power back > on it booted normally and the system looks fine. > > > So far it is looking great. The network is working. I'm glad I did it. > > But I'll say this: If they really want this thing to take off and they > want ordinary people to use Ubuntu, they *really* have to make the > installation work as well as they possibly can. The installer does a > great job of getting things working, but it is way more bug-ridden than it > should be. The bugs are not just annoying and they would definitely stop > many people from completing the installation. > > Mike > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -- Reclaim Your Inbox! http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20060711/7bfd70ab/attachment.htm