Novice query: Installation Help

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 02 October 2013 18:54:06 Ric Moore did opine:

> On 10/02/2013 03:26 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Wednesday 02 October 2013 03:25:32 Ric Moore did opine:
> >> On 10/01/2013 02:17 PM, PM wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>> 
> >>> I have downloaded the Ubuntu LTS 12.04.3 and want to install in the
> >>> whole of the space of my PC. Please let me know about how much
> >>> partition should I allocate for each partition or should I go with
> >>> the default one, means letting Ubuntu itself decide what to do
> >>> (since I have to use whole of the disk). The details are as
> >>> follows:
> >>> 
> >>> RAM size: 2 GB
> >>> Hard-disk size: 230 GB actually but they say it is 250 GB
> >>> 
> >>> Further, if I should go with LVM or not? If it is really useful, I
> >>> would use it but if I have to go with it, how to use it during the
> >>> installation?
> >> 
> >> just take the defaults. Pesonally I wouldn't mess with partitions
> >> unless I had a bigger harddrive. The defaults will use the entire
> >> drive, it will use the ext4 file system (LVM) and you'll be good to
> >> go.
> >> 
> >> One note. some have experienced wifi network problems unless you use
> >> the live session to install from. Then it is reported to be
> >> completely successful. Ric
> > 
> > Tain't just wifi Ric, its all networking.
> 
> Ah, that explains why I had to hammer in a nail to get plain-jane eth0
> to work. :) Ric

I hammered in several Ric, so network-mis-manager has been, on my system, 
totally sterilized, it can't screw with anything.

But this post will likely restart the tirade of posts questioning my family 
tree because I had the audacity to fix what network-mis-manager couldn't, 
by emasculating its ability to modify anything.  You can't remove it else 
it wants to take out 100's of other packages with it.

Cheers, Gene
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