First impressions with Ubuntu

[Santiago Erquicia]

On Fri, 2004-09-17 at 17:34 +0200, nicola wrote:
> Hi to everyone !
> I've tried installing Ubuntu on my Acer TM803LMi centrino based laptop.
> I had all the partitions made up with Partition Magic and I erased & 
> reformatted them (reiserfs) within the normal install procedure. I've also 
> said to the system to mount the fat32 partition leaving & using the
> existent 
> data and to mount them on /mnt/data-mobile.
> Everything seemed to be ok, but after the first reboot the system had an
> "hang 
> up" with the check of the fat32 partiton. The procedure told me something 
> about lenght of file-names or truncating them. At one point it has just 
> stopped and after 15 minutes of nothing I did a reboot on M$ and continued
> to 
> do my business as usual, so the fat32 partion isn't screwed up.
> 

I have the same problem but I never let it finish checking my partition.
It was working perfectly under Fedora so I know there is nothing wrong
with it.  I just stop the checking by pressing CTRL-C and then CTRL-D.

If there is anyone here that knows what's going of would be great.  I
don't want to screw up that partition since is were I have all my
valuable information.

> Any hints on that ?
> Do I have to try another installation WITHOUT mounting the fat32 partition
> and 
> then add it manually to the fstab?
> 
> Thanks in advance !
> 
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