Anyone having issues installing 12.04?

[Joel Pickett]

On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Paul Gear <paul at libertysys.com.au> wrote:

> On 03/02/12 11:34, Stephen Rees-Carter wrote:
> > Hi Daniel,
> >
> > Sorry, let me explain my "over the top of" :)
> >
> > My HDD is partitioned into three: a root (/) partition, a /home
> > partition and swap.
> > So what I am doing is telling the installer to format my root
> > partition and leave the /home unformatted but mounted as /home.
> >
> > Make more sense?
> >
> > I prefer to do a clean install keeping my home directory, but I am
> > considering the upgrade method.
> > As for a clean install, although I have a good backup method, it will
> > still take effort :)
> > ...
> >
> > On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 11:27 AM, danyJ <danyj028 at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> >> ...
> >> Hi Stephen,
> >>
> >> Not sure what you mean by installing "over the top of 11.10"? I'd say
> its best to do a proper upgrade,
> >> or ask it to reformat everything and wipe off 11.10. (you would have
> saved your data files?)
>
> The method you're using makes perfect sense, Stephen, and should work.
> My suggestion is to install just to / and don't tell it about /home
> until after you've installed (i.e. edit /etc/fstab when you're done).
>
> I would question Daniel's assertion that "its [sic] best to do a proper
> upgrade".  Debian and all derivatives are designed to upgrade smoothly,
> and Ubuntu has an excellent track record on this.  Saying that a clean
> install is better nowadays is borderline FUD.
>
> Paul
>
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> I initially has issues clean installing to 12.04 lalpha 2 due to the
installer not adding the STA Broadcom driver. Even after installation and
connecting to a wired network to install it via jockey, it wasn't showing
up. I needed to initially install via a wired network (which borked the
first time right at the end) to get a proper install

Joel Pickett
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