Some critics about Ubuntu

Matt Zimmerman mdz at canonical.com
Mon Nov 29 16:49:58 CST 2004


On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 09:05:44AM +0100, debian_noob at web.de wrote:

> 1) The installation: My first problem arouse at the partitioning. I had
> already some (unused) etx2, ext3 and swap partitions so I went and only choosed
> the mount points for them. But the partitioning app gave me some 
> weird error. So I had to choose to "format" the partitions. This was no
> problem in the kind of "loosing data" but why doesn't the partitioner
> accept some "finished and ready" partitions?
> I am going to make a new install today( I will try a custom install), 
> so I can probably give you a better description of the error message later.

We can't do anything about this without more specific information from you
(starting with the exact text of the error message that you saw).

> 3) "Professional" Services from the start up: So I went through the installation
> (which was not hard as I told already) and I booted into Ubuntu. What did my
> eyes see? From the install up there were services like LVM and RAID configured
> and started. 
> Please disable these things for the normal install. Because there are many 
> people who install on low profile machines as I did it and they didn't need LVM,RAID
> AND the people who need these things are experienced enough to make the settings
> later.

These tools don't do anything unless you choose to use them, with the
exception of mdrun (which should be fixed to automatically disable itself
for the next release), so try not to worry too much about them.

-- 
 - mdz



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