[xubuntu-users] Installation problem with xubuntu

[Steve Cook]

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David J. Ellis wrote:
> Thanks for the 'long wait' hint, Charlie. I was already using that
> alternate image and was expecting substantial time delays during
> install and run, but not quite the 6 hours level. I did leave it
> overnight when I used "guided partioning" that first time, so I know
> that one never came back. However, I had only waited an hour or so
> with pre-partitioned case. I will retry the pre-partitioned one and
> let it wait for the rest of today - circa 8 hours.
I tend to move the hard drive to a newer, faster machine to do the
install when machines are that limited, then move the drive back when
all is installed.

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> How well behaved is the multi-boot installation of the normal Ubuntu
> image (see below)?
> 
> I do have a real machine that I'm ultimately interested in using but
> it presently has both MS Win2K and the Recovery Console installed on
> it. I dare not risk loosing that. That system has 36 Gbyte
> unallocated on the boot IDE drive which also contains the MS C:
> primary partition. The Win2K install resides on D: on a different
> platter. The Recovery Console install AND all the boot files are in
> that small FAT32 primary partition on the IDE (C:). I could easily
> turn the 36 Gbyte unallocated into an extended partition and create
> two logical partitions in it - Ext2 and swap. My real concern is 
> whether the multi-boot install is clever enough to understand and
> preserve the current multi-boot options that were set up using
> Microsoft's loader.
> 
> I have previously run Ubuntu on that system, booting it from a CD
> based trial version. I know it worked pretty well EXCEPT that it
> failed to detect the display resolution (should be 1680 x 1050) and
> defaulted to something like 800 x 600. If I can safely install on the
> HDD then I can try and find out how to manually set the display
> resolution to what it should be. That would allow me to properly
> check it out while preserving the current working environment.
> 
There shouldn’t be a problem. But that can’t be guaranteed.
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