[ubuntu-uk] 12.04 oddities

[paul sutton]

On 01/05/12 10:51, Anton Kanishchev wrote:
> Which wireless card do you have? 
> I tried 12.04(lts, x86 version) on 3 computers so far ( 1 from
> 2005-2006) and everything worked without
> any unnecessary configurations. are you using a cd to install 12.04
> from? I know the image is 701mb which technically doesnt fit on a cd
> but imgburn seemed happy to burn it in my case. I had lots of problems
> with that cd and eventually put 12.04 on a  usb stick-flawless
> installation. If you used a cd I'd recommend a live usb stick-much
> quicker in any case.


Live usb stick as my netbook doesn't have a cd drive.

Paul
>
> On 1 May 2012 10:20, paul sutton <zleap at zleap.net
> <mailto:zleap at zleap.net>> wrote:
>
>     On 01/05/12 02:20, Roy Jamison wrote:
>     >
>     > I think what we're trying to say is maybe it's time to upgrade ;)
>     >
>     > On May 1, 2012 12:13 AM, "Alan Pope" <alan.pope at canonical.com
>     <mailto:alan.pope at canonical.com>
>     <mailto:alan.pope at canonical.com <mailto:alan.pope at canonical.com>>>
>     wrote:
>     >
>     > On 30/04/12 11:20, paul sutton wrote:
>     > > on the partition page i choose set up and tried to partition as
>     > > follows
>     >
>     > > / 50mb
>     >
>     > That's not big enough.
>     >
>     > > /home 100mb
>     >
>     > Neither is that. Also, why have a separate home?
>     >
>     > > swap 10mb
>     >
>     >
>     > Nor is that big enough.
>     >
>     > Cheers,
>
>
>     Ok all that should be GB,   so its a 160gb hard disk,   what my
>     question
>     was is why would it not let me create a 100 gb partition and made
>     it 110
>     gb,  when i told it to make it 100gb,   so I had space at the end for
>     the 10gb swap partition.
>
>     Anyway 12.04 is up and running,  i need to get wireless working,   so
>     not sure why when I am sure it worked out of the box with 11.10,
>      and below.
>
>     Separate home, i was under the impression this made life easier
>     and was
>     the right way to do things (been using linux for years), if I want to
>     wipe / later on and install something else, I can do, and it will
>     leave
>     /home intact and not wipe the data from it,
>
>
>     Paul
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