This does NOT go towards making a good impression :-(

[Basil Chupin]

Seeing as how I try and help users here re their problems with Ubuntu, 
and seeing as how I did once, long mong ago and in a galaxy far far 
away, use Ubuntu for a short period, I thought that I would install a 
copy of 12.04 LTS.

So, I downloaded a copy of the 86_64 iso but the only version which I 
can find is something called 12.04.2. OK, I says to myself so it's 
12.04.2. Pish! No worries! But then I thought that I would refresh my 
memory about the installation procedure because something at the back of 
my mind niggled me about and "alternate" version which gave one more 
options when installing - and I want to install this in a very special 
place and have the bootloader in a special place. And so I go and 
download 12.04.2 Alternate iso. I burn it to a DVD (a CD is too small) 
and I boot this DVD.

The first thing I did after booting into 12.04.2 was to check the DVD 
for errors. Off it goes and checks itself for errors. There aren't any. 
And the message on the screen "tells" me to Continue. I press every 
known key to humanity but 12.04.2 just sits there - like someone turned 
into stone after looking at Medusa. "OK", I thinks to meself, "these 
things can happen so let's just reboot and go for the jugular - the 
Install bit".

And so I reboot, press ENTER on the preselected English language, the 
DVD whirls away and gets to the next screen ------ and the bloody thing 
freezes solid again! It just sits there like a stunned mullet!

Wot a waste of download quota and time as well as a perfectly good DVD :-( .

Anyway, I thought that getting the copy of the original 12.04 may do 
what I want but......guess what? There is no such thing as 12.04 
available - only 12.04.2.

Now the only thing I can try is to install the "standard" 12.04.2 and 
make sure that I am able to put the OS into the correct partition and 
the bootloader into the place I want it to go. If I cannot do this then 
- well, you know what will happen, right?

BC

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