This does NOT go towards making a good impression :-( [FOLLOW UP]

[Basil Chupin]

On 01/04/13 15:48, Basil Chupin wrote:
> 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

OK, the 12.04.2 version of Ubuntu has been installed.

It is now 1 of the 5 OSs on my system, 4 of which are using grub2. And 
all is well. But I have yet to really use 12.04.2 - ie, (try and) run 
the same apps which I use on the other OSs.

BC

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