Maverick Meerkat

[James]

in the live cd I like that it asks for the harddrive setup before hand
and sets it up while you configure the
software(time/username/password) which is quite logical compared to
before(setup software then harddrives)

I believe they are trying to improve user experience quite a lot...
especially if you compare it to 6.06

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Doooh Head <doooh_head at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
> I am wondering how everybody's experience has been with the latest Ubuntu?
> I had quiet the harrowing ordeal.
> I had upgraded to the pre-release version but felt that my machine, which
> has been upgraded since 8.10 deserved a re-install.  I downloaded the 64-bit
> desktop version ISO, checked its MD5 checksum and the ISO file was fine.  I
> used Brassaro to burn it onto a CD.  I restarted my machine and it took a
> long time for it to come up.  I started the install, told it to install over
> my existing Ubuntu partition (I had backed everything up to another drive).
>  The installer crashed at about 70% done.  Tried to boot what was installed
> but my GRUB was gone.  Was not able to access any volume (I had Vista setup
> to dual boot along side Ubuntu).  I tried the install again.  This time when
> I attempted to select my existing Ubuntu partition to install it on it,
> along with my Vista partition, were gone.  So I selected the entire drive to
> install to, I wasn't all that concerned about losing Vista.  Turned out I
> chose the wrong drive (I have two identical drives in my machine), I chose
> the drive to which I backed everything up to.  That install failed as well.
>  I was concerned the CD's weren't being burned well for some reason so I
> downloaded and burned the ISO on my work PC (using XP) and it seemed to work
> better as I tried the install once again and it actually completed.  When I
> restarted for some reason it was still complaining about my GRUB not being
> there.  I ended up opening the PC, disconnecting a third drive just to see
> if the power usage was too much.  I have had three drives, plus a DVD in it
> working for several months now but every once in a while it wouldn't reboot.
>  I was suspecting that it was under powered.  Upon powering on the machine I
> was presented with a GRUB menu showing two different Ubuntu's.  I chose the
> first one it, booted fine on the drive I was expecting.  That was when I
> discovered that I installed a second Ubuntu onto the drive I backed
> everything up to.  I shut it down, reconnected my third drive, booted up
> just fine.  I reformatted the second Ubuntu installed drive.  I don't think
> I lost anything all that important but one of the things I did do that I was
> looking forward to regaining was a list of the apps/etc that I had installed
> so I could resurrect some of them.
> I believe my issues were hardware related as well I was doing things around
> the house so I was in and out all day.  Obviously my attention was not
> focused on the task at hand especially when I installed over my backup
> drive.
> So far though I am pleased with v10.10.  I will now be spending a bit of
> time getting everything set back up to the way I like my desktop to be.  Am
> considering seeing if I can get Vista to run in a VM.  I have a license for
> it on this machine and only retain it just because I paid for it when I
> bought the machine.  Anyone out there done such a thing?
>
> DooohHead
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