Fort Worth Linux Users Group Discussion Board

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.

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...

An easy fix would be to install Fedora 12. I'm just sayin.

Since when do we do easy fixes around here? Where's the challenge in that?

Good point.

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.