Sorry to hear it. Sounds miserable. Anyway, I'll try to eff with the install CD tonight. Meantime, you might want to give the alternate installer a shot. It's like the old 5.10installers, not a live/install. You can d/l it here: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/dapper/release/ On 6/6/06, Mike Miller <mbmiller at taxa.epi.umn.edu> wrote: > > 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 > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20060606/0a91d940/attachment.htm