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.<br><br>Desktop<br>P4 2.8 HT<br>2 gigs RAM<br>ASUS MB<br><br>Laptop<br>Thinkpad A22m<br>PIII 800 Mhz<br>256 mb RAM<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">
On 6/7/06, <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;">
The desktop installer was buggy, so it took me about 8 tries to get it<br>right. Maybe the alternative installer would have worked better, but I<br>did get this one to work. The workarounds aren't hard once you know what
<br>they are. After I got it all figured out (that took a day or so), the<br>total time to do the installation was probably about 1 hour, but only<br>about 30 minutes of my time was needed.<br><br>I was installing Xubuntu as the sole OS on an Intel Compaq machine that is
<br>a few years old. This is what I did to get it to work:<br><br>(1) Use gparted live CD to partition the HDD:<br><br><a href="http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php">http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php</a><br>
<br>I made a 500 MB partition for linux-swap and the remaining volume went to<br>an ext2 partition. If I used ext3 instead, the installer crashed. When I<br>used gparted within Xubuntu to partition, it crashed the installer. This
<br>is why I am recommending the gparted live CD.<br><br>(2) Reboot with the Xubuntu CD in the CD drive.<br><br>(3) Wait for the desktop to appear (could take a few minutes).<br><br>(4) Turn off the screen saver (I was told it can cause problems).
<br> (a) right click on desktop and wait for a menu to appear<br> (b) choose "Settings" in the menu and "Settings Manage" under that<br> (c) click on the Screensaver icon<br> (d) in the upper right "mode" menu, choose "Disable Screensaver"
<br> (e) click the 'x' in the upper right of the windows to kill them<br><br>(5) Right click the Install icon on the desktop and choose "Execute" from<br>the menu that appears (normal clicking or double clicking the icon did not
<br>work for me).<br><br>(6) Follow the simple instructions until you get to the partitioning stage<br><br>(7) In the menu for the partition manager choose "manually edit" and click<br>"forward" until you get to the menu for mounting. Leave the check marks
<br>on for "Reformat?" in your HDD partitions. This must be done because of a<br>bug in the installer.<br><br>(8) Let the installer do the installing. It will take a while (30 minutes<br>for me).<br><br>(9) You can choose to restart when it has completed, but for me it did not
<br>restart correctly and I had to power down. When I turned the power back<br>on it booted normally and the system looks fine.<br><br><br>So far it is looking great. The network is working. I'm glad I did it.<br><br>But I'll say this: If they really want this thing to take off and they
<br>want ordinary people to use Ubuntu, they *really* have to make the<br>installation work as well as they possibly can. The installer does a<br>great job of getting things working, but it is way more bug-ridden than it
<br>should be. The bugs are not just annoying and they would definitely stop<br>many people from completing the installation.<br><br>Mike<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota
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