Installation minor troubles

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
Am Sonntag, den 29.10.2006, 06:05 -0400 schrieb frank claessen:
> Hi all,
> 
> I installed Edubuntu for the first time and - compared to Fedora and
> Mandriva and even Ubuntu itself - there are a few peculiar things.
> 
> First of all, Edubuntu for some reason or the other does not see the
> DHCP server that is active by means of the linksys cable adsl-router.
> 
> That strikes me as odd, especially since Ubuntu itself does see that
> server and does act accordingly.
> 
> If - after the first install - I use the CD again to repeat parts of the
> installation process, it DOES see the dhcp server. The moment I repeat
> the complete installation again, it again fails to see the dhcp server. 
> 
> Furthermore I feel that it is not very user friendly that Edubuntu fails
> to see the already installed other operating systems. It simply
> overwrites an existing GRUB install with its own settings.

note that the officiall CD we ship through shipit is the install CD, not
the live CD, it has a lot more options.

the above looks like you are installing from the liveCD (which in fact
does only a workstation install ) and it seems you are facing:
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+bug/68245
which is sadly very hard to reproduce since it apparently only occurs on
occasion as you saw in your tests as well...

ciao
	oli
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