Ubuntu 9.10 karmic installation... Not so positive
So, i thought I'd give Ubuntu a go. After running Debian unstable for a while (with pleasure, I might add), I was in for some new experience.
The standard graphical install gave a blank screen, so that needed using a "safe graphical mode". Why the installer doesn't go "safe" in the first place is beyond me. Strike one.
Next there was trouble in the Partition Manager. I had one "hard disk" to choose from, which was called /dev/mapper/(some cryptic name). Well, I suppose the partition manager decided that I wanted to use soft raid, as I had two hard disks of exactly the same size. The fact that one of them had Windows installed, and the other one had a perfectly good partitioned Debian installation was apparently of no consequence, since I was, after all, installing a new OS, right? gparted, cfdisk and fdisk however had no trouble at all spotting what was going on in my head.
Trying all kinds of different BIOS settings, actually disabling hard disks, and ultimately plugging out the SATA connector to the second of my hard disks (with Windows on it), a few extra grey hairs and a rough hour later had me finally resorting to a minimal ISO and a net-install using a text-installer. Strike two.
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