Sorry to hear it. Sounds miserable.<br><br>Anyway, I'll try to eff with the install CD tonight. Meantime, you might want to give the alternate installer a shot. It's like the old 5.10 installers, not a live/install. You can d/l it here:
<br><a href="http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/dapper/release/">http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/dapper/release/</a><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/6/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Mike Miller
</b> <<a href="mailto:mbmiller@taxa.epi.umn.edu">mbmiller@taxa.epi.umn.edu</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, Pete Daniels wrote:<br><br>> I haven't used the Xubuntu installer (yet, ask me tomorrow), but I'm<br>> pretty sure it'd be the same: Select "manually edit partition table"<br>> when the installer prompts you to and just click through the first
<br>> screen (the partitioner). On the next screen, you'll be prompted to<br>> select mount points.<br><br>I followed your advice and it seemed to work, but the the installer<br>crashes! Well, I'm probably going to quit trying now unless someone finds
<br>some good info on how to deal with the buggy Xubuntu installer. Problems:<br><br>(1) you have to load Xubuntu on a live CD to initiate the installation and<br>it takes forever to get started.<br><br>(2) If the HDD is partitioned in a certain way when the Xubuntu Live CD is
<br>started, it will crash. Or so it seems. When I had / formatted for ext3,<br>the live CD would not load Xubuntu, but when I formatted for ext2, it<br>loaded.<br><br>(3) After skipping through the partition management part of the
<br>installation process, the installer stops and tells me that there are<br>errors on the HDD and that I must go back and fix them. If I try to do<br>this, the installer crashes and tells me to file a bug report.<br><br>
Mentioned earlier:<br><br>If you don't turn off the screen saver, it will not install (I believed<br>this story and did not test it).<br><br>If you try to use Ubuntu's partition manager during the installation, the<br>installation will fail.
<br><br><br>Sadly, I can't recommend Ubuntu when I can't get it to work. I had high<br>hopes.<br><br>Mike<br></blockquote></div><br>