Maverick Meerkat

[IdleOne]

For CD/DVD burning I prefer to use gnomebaker which is available in the
repositories. I also experienced the same failure rate with Brasero.

As for Maverick I have been running it since pre-alpha and have not had
any major issues I could not recover from. Looking forward to running
Natty now :)

IdleOne

On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 08:58 -0700, William Hetherington wrote:
> I upgraded rather than a fresh install.... flawless, I haven't run in
> to any issues yet!
> 
> willwh
> 
> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 8:49 AM, Che Guebeara <cheguebeara at gmail.com> wrote:
> > My experience burning ISO's is that Ubuntu should quit shipping Brasero as I
> > have about a 50% failure rate on CD / DVD's created by it and those that
> > burn will only install off the original DVD burner. I installed K3B and
> > associated KDE dependencies and it works fine, with nary a failure or quirky
> > disk since.
> >
> > Mark
> >
> > On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 11:51 -0300, Doooh Head 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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