the ubuntu installer worked fine on my box, so I'm guessing it has something to do with KDE?<br><br><p><DEFANGED_div><DEFANGED_span class="gmail_quote">On 7/20/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ben Rousch</b> <<a href="mailto:brousch@orthicomp.com">
brousch@orthicomp.com</a>> wrote:</DEFANGED_span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" DEFANGED_style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I also had a couple of problems using the manual partitioner on the Kubuntu
<br>Dapper Live CD.<br><br>First, the Live CD grabbed and used a swap partition on the hard disk, so I<br>had to restart and specify swap=off or swapoff in the boot options.<br><br>Then the partitioner in the Live CD install (qtparted I believe) refused to
<br>commit my manual parition scheme. I ended up apt-get installing gparted,<br>partitioning the disk how I wanted it (make sure to run gparted using sudo),<br>then re-running the Live Install.<br><br>I agree the Kubuntu Live CD partitioner seems to be broken, but I love the way
<br>the system runs afterwards!<br><br>On Tuesday 18 July 2006 19:44, zdennis wrote:<br>> I am very dissappointed with the Kubuntu 6.0.6 Dapper install cd. Not only<br>> is there NO text-mode installer (have to download the alternate install cd
<br>> for that) you are forced to use a broken GUI installer.<br>><br>> The Kubuntu Dapper install cd is a live cd with an installer. It boots you<br>> into KDE and there is an "Install" icon on the desktop. The installer looks
<br>> promising to be something very easy for a typical end user to use, however,<br>> it currently has faults.<br>><br>> On Step 5 of 6 I chose to manually edit my partition table. While creating<br>> partitions the installer screen would blank out (looks like an application
<br>> hang). After a very long time of letting it sit there I got a window with a<br>> python stacktrace in it.<br>><br>> I tried a few more times and gave up on the GUI partitioner, so I fired up<br>> Konsole and used cfdisk to partition. After my partition looked good I went
<br>> back to the GUI installer. I got to the last step and I needed select what<br>> partitions to automount. It would only let me select the number of<br>> mountpoints as I had primary partitions. Since I have 3 primary partitions,
<br>> and the rest were logical I could only mount /boot, /root and /home.<br>><br>> I rebooted, and then manually sync'd /var and /usr with /dev/hda5 and<br>> /dev/hda6, and updated the /etc/fstab file. I rebooted and all was well.
<br>><br>> I run Kubuntu Dapper at home on my desktop (but that was an upgrade from<br>> Kubuntu Breezy) so I know I want to stick with Kubuntu, but there<br>> installer's shouldn't have these obvious problems with it.
<br>><br>> They are moving in the right direction, but this installer just blew the<br>> big one.<br>><br>> The one nice thing about the installer that makes me slightly less<br>> dissappointer is the fact that my Intel PRO 2200BG wireless chipset worked
<br>> out of the box. No packages to download and install, no configurations. It<br>> just worked. And WEP did to. yay!<br>><br>> Zach<br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> grlug mailing list
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