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Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala Install Issue

Postby Randy » Sun Nov 15, 2009 3:50 pm

For those of you who were at the meeting, Saturday, and know of the problem I was having installing Ubuntu 9.10 on my laptop, here is what I did to make it work.

During the disk partitioning phase of the installation, I did a manual partition making sure that each partition was a primary partition. The auto-partitioner kept making the root partition an extended partition. I haven't had time to delve into it any further as to why it would work the way I have it set up. Once that was done, the installer continued as normal and booting into the new install worked as expected.

I have not had any other problems. I have restored my home directory and some of the software I use - all is working well. If anything else comes up, I'll try to let you know.
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Re: Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala Install Issue

Postby maczimus » Sun Nov 15, 2009 9:37 pm

That is weird...you need at least 1 primary partition though....may want to file a bug....ya know what is weird? on my end i was having great difficulty as well....i tried normal Ubuntu and it works great! UNR seems to have many issues....go figure....but out of the box i get compiz on my intel gfx in 9.04 vs not being able to in 9.04 UNR!?!?! wierd...
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Re: Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala Install Issue

Postby LinuxNative » Tue Nov 17, 2009 4:31 pm

An easy fix would be to install Fedora 12. I'm just sayin. :D
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Re: Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala Install Issue

Postby Randy » Wed Nov 18, 2009 12:35 pm

Since when do we do easy fixes around here? Where's the challenge in that? ;)
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Re: Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala Install Issue

Postby LinuxNative » Fri Nov 20, 2009 4:31 pm

Good point. :lol:
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Re: Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala Install Issue

Postby glavanway » Thu Dec 17, 2009 9:30 am

For what it's worth, I upgraded from 9.04 to 9.10 it went pretty smooth, except both times I did it I had to reinstall (freshly downloaded) video drivers, to get the GUI up.
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