Novice query: Installation Help

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 03 October 2013 06:40:58 Ric Moore did opine:

> On 10/02/2013 07:05 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Ah! But just a couple of releases back, I installed wicd and then the
> system allowed me to dump NM without busting everything. I guess you
> have to have at least one network manager installed. Dunno if that is
> still true, you might give it a whirl. wicd gave me fewer headaches. Ric

I believe that is what Mint 14 on my lappy is using.  And yes, it works, 
needing far less naproxin sodium to cope with it.

Cheers, Gene
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