[dundee] Gutsy Gibbon Ubiquity Installer

[gordon dunlop]

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

Gordon