[dundee] Gutsy Gibbon Ubiquity Installer

[chris wyllie]

That does sound like a right pain in the arse right enough. The only time
I've installed Ubuntu recently was 7.04 and it hung on the last step of
installation and broke itself so I just wiped it. To be honest, I've seen a
plethora of problems with Ubuntu and its derivatives even booting on some
laptops because they try to detect a floppy drive the laptop doesn't have
and then it hangs. Normal Debian doesn't do this, so why couldn't the Ubuntu
folks just leave the boot procedure more or less alone?

On 21/11/2007, <3 <sauntering.with.scissors at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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