On 05.03.15 11:06, Trent W. Buck wrote:
> Erik Christiansen writes:
> > Downloaded ubuntu-14.04.2-desktop-i386.iso, and burnt a CD.
> > [problems detecting/configuring the disk]
>
> NFI what ubiquity (the GUI installer) looks like these days,
> but IIRC I did a 14.04 install recently using debian-installer,
> and it worked the same way it always has.
>
> That's this:
>
> http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/trusty/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/mini.iso
>
> (Change "amd64" to "i386" if you insist.)
Not being game to assume that amd64 would work on my old intel
motherboard, I did hunt out i386 for the ubuntu install. The installer
which came with Debian+LXDE, a couple of years back, was smooth enough -
but the laptop drive already had MSW on it, so had a partition to hack.
I'm not quite so keen to buy more GUI trouble when a few minutes with
parted can give me root (boot), swap, and the_rest, partitions, in a
more accessible way than the GUI. (I expect)
Over a decade I haven't yet filled the old 40 GB drive (the twin is a
mirror), so it's hard to go far wrong in a new 320 GB paddock, I figure.
(An extra GB or two of root or swap is cheap insurance)
Erik
--
Why make things difficult, when it is possible to make them cryptic
and totally illogical, with just a little bit more effort?"
- A. P. J.
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