[GRLUG] Kubuntu 6.0.6 Dapper Installer, disappointed

[Justin Denick]

On 8/15/06, Jordan Hudson <jodanlime at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> the ubuntu installer worked fine on my box, so I'm guessing it has
> something to do with KDE?
>

How?

Qtparted is natively limited. I don't think you can even create ext3
partitions with it, and moving and/or resizing the existing partitions is
just as limited.

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