[plug] Ubuntu - baaahhh!!!!! Humbug

[Timothy White]

On 12/26/06, Richard Meyer <meyerri at westnet.com.au> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I decided to try Ubuntu on my lappy today (well, actually Mint, rather,
> and then Ubuntu), and I had the most irritating time.
>
> Both were quite happy to recognise the hardware on the lappy, so I told
> them to go ahead and install. I had partitions set up for them to use
> (formerly used by SLED 10), and both distros insisted that I hadn't
> allocated a root partition, even though I could see it there - I can
> assure you that if the lappy belonged to Canonical, Mr Shuttleworth
> would be crying over the expense of piecing all the molecules back
> together at this moment.

Having a partition, is different from having it assigned as a root
partition, especially if the partition contains data. What you need to
do, in the installer, is ether select the partition, and tell it the
mount point is / or, delete the partition, and tell the installer to
use the free space on the disk.

If you get stuck, give me a buzz, I'm sure I can help. Ubuntu is
normally a breeze to install!

Tim
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