[ubuntu-za] A modest proposal for eliminating the inevitable partition failure issue with Ubuntu conversions

[Robert Holm]

On Sat, 2009-04-11 at 16:10 +0200, David Robert Lewis wrote:
> Robert Holm wrote:
> > On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 20:33 +0200, David Robert Lewis wrote:
> >
> > <snip>
> >   
> >> I therefore demand a better way of dealing with the existential crisis, 
> >> the inevitable crash, 
> >>     
> > <snip>
> >
> > I think I must be missing out on something. 
> > Why does everything go along so smoothly for me. 
> > Why can't I also have all these interesting problems.
> > I demand to be let into the secret.
> >
> > Robert :-)
> >
> >
> >   
> Did you convert completely, or partition? Also, the Ubuntu duel boot 
> option assumes you're not going to do something crazy like partition a 
> third disk with HFS and that you're not going to try to install anything 
> else like SuZe. I went the partitioning root, learnt my lesson, sort of. 
> Then I got into VMS, but got caught by the Macintel bug, sad to say. 
> Now, I'm upgrading to VMware server, and sticking with one basic OS.
> 
> NO secret, really, just got Penguins popping out of my box right now, 
> and they are all dancing around and around going, Squeak, Bah, humbug, 
> bug. :)
> 
Cute