[GRLUG] Kubuntu 6.0.6 Dapper Installer, disappointed

[Ben Rousch]

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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