[GRLUG] ubuntu/kubuntu boot issues

[Tim Schmidt]

Ummm...  Yeah.  If you had selected the option to 'erase and
automatically partition the disk' it would have worked fine. 
Alternatively, choosing 'manually edit the partition table' dumps you
into a partitioning interface which is markedly similar to Windows XP
setup's.  Create a bootable partition mounted on / formatted as ext2,
ext3, reiserfs, jfs, or xfs and your machine should work fine.  LVM,
RAID, swap partitions, etc. are all strictly optional.  If you'd like
a step-by-step walkthrough through partitioning I can do that later
today...  Seriously though...  Ubuntu's (and hence Debian's)
partitioner is not an ounce more complicated than redhat's,
mandriva's, suse's or microsoft's...

--tim

On 2/17/06, Topher <topher at wcsg.org> wrote:
> Ok, I'm going to try to remember everything I did last night, we'll see if
> it works.
>
> I (tried) install Ubuntu in VMWare last night.  This was actually my fist
> experience running Linux in a VM, in the past it's always been XP.
>
> It went fine until I got to the partitioning stuff, which was NOT
> intuitive.  My options were software raid, or LVM, niether of which I
> really wanted, but there were no other options.  I also didn't have an
> option to see an existing partition table.  This could be because there
> wasn't one, but I was hoping to see an option, since on my student laptops
> I need to preserve the windows partition.  So my only option was to wipe
> the (virtual) drive.
>
> I ended up picking LVM.  It dove right in installing stuff like ubuntu
> does, and then came to a point where it said the kernel could not be
> installed on the existing partition, and if I continue, the whole thing
> will fail.
>
> My students confirmed that this happens every time.
>
> So at this point I'd have to say Ubuntu isn't as easy to install as redhat
> 4.2 was.  :(
>
> I fully expect cries of shock and outrage, but there just weren't that
> many options.
>
> Topher
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