[dundee] Gutsy Gibbon Ubiquity Installer

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Got that all out your system?

hehe.
-jen

On Nov 20, 2007 11:16 PM, gordon dunlop <astrozubenel at googlemail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
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