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Hi,<div>I'm an IT Consultant and desperately want to embrace Linux/Ubuntu but my experience thus far is miserable to say the least.</div><div>I've downloaded, burnt and verified the Feisty Fawn 7.10 i386 DVD.</div><div>As a live CD/DVD it is wonderful and very seductive. The install experience is a nightmare.</div><div>For someone who has spent over a decade using fdisk, Partition Magic, Mac OS partitioning and other utilities I fail to understand why the partitioning procedure is so non-intuitive and frankly difficult. I have reserved a 10GB+ partition (call it D: although it no longer is, it is free space and still have no joy).</div><div>The installer falls over twice. Once during the File/Account transfer which I didn't choose as an option and then at 94% when it tries and fails to install grub reporting a fatal error. I end up with no Ubuntu install and my Windows MBR is destroyed. I have nothing. It is long known that the XP repair console utility simply doesn't work so I have to reinstall Windows which in XP at least retains my documents and settings.</div><div>Part of the problem I think is that the partitioning tool is reporting my HD as SCSI (sda) which it patently isn't, it is bog standard IDE.</div><div>Originally (I've done this 4 times now) I thought it was failing because it was trying to install grub on an hda space when it's own partitioner was calling it sda. I changed this to sda in the Advanced option but it still doesn't work.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>I'm stuck but would still like very much an Ubuntu install. I'm very stubborn!</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Can you offer any advice?</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Best regards,</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Eamonn</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div>Further info @:</div><div><a href="http://www.themacguy.org">http://www.themacguy.org</a>/</div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div>Tel:</div><div>Fixed/IP No. 0207 100 7888</div><div>Mob. 07881 910 165</div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.329412) 1px -1px;; font-size: 10px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Handwriting - Dakota"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "><i style="font-size: 10px; font-style: italic; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; font-style: italic; ">"We're on the cutting edge of an Information Technology revolution. 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