On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, Pete Daniels wrote: > I haven't used the Xubuntu installer (yet, ask me tomorrow), but I'm > pretty sure it'd be the same: Select "manually edit partition table" > when the installer prompts you to and just click through the first > screen (the partitioner). On the next screen, you'll be prompted to > select mount points. I followed your advice and it seemed to work, but the the installer crashes! Well, I'm probably going to quit trying now unless someone finds some good info on how to deal with the buggy Xubuntu installer. Problems: (1) you have to load Xubuntu on a live CD to initiate the installation and it takes forever to get started. (2) If the HDD is partitioned in a certain way when the Xubuntu Live CD is started, it will crash. Or so it seems. When I had / formatted for ext3, the live CD would not load Xubuntu, but when I formatted for ext2, it loaded. (3) After skipping through the partition management part of the installation process, the installer stops and tells me that there are errors on the HDD and that I must go back and fix them. If I try to do this, the installer crashes and tells me to file a bug report. Mentioned earlier: If you don't turn off the screen saver, it will not install (I believed this story and did not test it). If you try to use Ubuntu's partition manager during the installation, the installation will fail. Sadly, I can't recommend Ubuntu when I can't get it to work. I had high hopes. Mike