Got that all out your system?<br><br>hehe.<br>-jen<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 20, 2007 11:16 PM, gordon dunlop <<a href="mailto:astrozubenel@googlemail.com">astrozubenel@googlemail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi All,<br>This Installer on Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Linux Mint 4 and other derivatives is<br>going from bad to worse. They put in this pesky migration assistant to<br>help windoze users, but for people that use multiple operating systems
<br>it is a disaster. I do not want it to migrate settings from my other 7<br>or 8 operating systems, so the installation just stalls when it comes<br>to the migration assistant transfer of settings (about 88% of<br>installation). The only way to get around this is when the live cd is
<br>running , not to double-click the install icon, press Alt+F2 to get to<br>a terminal window. Type ubiquity --no-migration-assistant and then it<br>should install O.K. Why can't the Ubuntu developers give an option in
<br>the install procedure whether an individual wants the migration<br>assistant via a yes or no button? DOH! Another 2 rants, in the manual<br>partitioning why must Ubuntu insist on trying to mount all partitions,<br>I now delete the mount points except for the Ubuntu partition. Before
<br>I had to manually remove them from my /etc/fstab file or the system<br>would lock up at the start of booting if I had made any changes to my<br>partitions (I normally do this frequently). Finally in deciding where<br>
the GRUB bootloader resides there is a little advanced button in the<br>last step of the installer, where a person can change it. Not in the<br>/dev nomenclature but in the disk nomenclature where it is (disk no<br>-1, partition no -1). Why can't they have a menu that simply asks to
<br>put GRUB in MBR or on own partition? Maybe I am spoiled with Fedora's<br>Anaconda installer but Ubiquity just sucks! A few amendments by the<br>developers can make it reasonably acceptable.<br><br>Gordon<br><br>_______________________________________________
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