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Re: [sheflug] Installing (k)ubuntu 6.06

And Lo! The Great Prophet Alex Hudson uttered these words of wisdom:
> On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 22:23 +0100, Chris J wrote:
> > Question for those of you using (K)ubuntu. I'm looking at installing this
> > (well specifically Kubuntu) on the other half's machine in the next day or
> > two, but I've not found any decent documentation about the install process.
> 
> Ah, you need to look in the right places ;)
> 
> 	https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GraphicalInstall
> 

Thank ye; that helps clarify the installation. I did some poking around the 
community docs earlier but failed to stumble across that page. Annoyingly, 
it didn't come up in a Google search either...

> There is a text-mode installer too, but if you can't use the graphical
> one, Ubuntu probably isn't for you. I believe Kubuntu uses the same
> installer as Ubuntu.

The problem I have with graphical installers in general is that they make 
things simple; I'm normally used to having almost manual control over an 
install, so handing a lot of the control over to a wizard unnerves me
slightly. Especially when it isn't my machine I'm installing on :-)


> I think basically you point it at the disk, and if you're ok with it
> partitioning the disk, it'll do that. 

>From what the screenshots seem to indicate, that does seem to be the way.


> Working alongside XP is a key goal for Ubuntu so that should work fine,
> and certainly the grub that installs will ensure that you can continue
> to boot XP. I have heard of random problems on occasion, but they're not
> really Ubuntu-specific.

I'll cross those if/when I come to them... :-)

Cheers,

Chris...

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