Various pre-install queries from potential user

[Colin Watson]

On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 05:34:49AM -0000, David Marsh wrote:
> Ooh, after all my fretting, the Ubuntu installation was remarkably
> painless. Well done to all involved :-)
> 
> For a textmode interface, the disk partitioner was actually remarkably
> friendly (although a nice feature, if possible, would be if it could
> identify the names that existing partitions were previously mounted
> under).

Gets tricky as soon as you have *two* other distributions installed ...

> The installation proceeded happily, including downloading updates from
> the net: just wondering, though, does Ubuntu run any kind of firewall
> during that process? It strikes me as a time when an unprotected system
> might be at risk while fetching the initial updates?

There are no open ports, so no.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                    [cjwatson at canonical.com]