Maverick Meerkat

[Doooh Head]

Hi All,
I am wondering how everybody's experience has been with the latest Ubuntu?
I had quiet the harrowing ordeal.  
I had upgraded to the pre-release version but felt that my machine, which has been upgraded since 8.10 deserved a re-install.  I downloaded the 64-bit desktop version ISO, checked its MD5 checksum and the ISO file was fine.  I used Brassaro to burn it onto a CD.  I restarted my machine and it took a long time for it to come up.  I started the install, told it to install over my existing Ubuntu partition (I had backed everything up to another drive).  The installer crashed at about 70% done.  Tried to boot what was installed but my GRUB was gone.  Was not able to access any volume (I had Vista setup to dual boot along side Ubuntu).  I tried the install again.  This time when I attempted to select my existing Ubuntu partition to install it on it, along with my Vista partition, were gone.  So I selected the entire drive to install to, I wasn't all that concerned about losing Vista.  Turned out I chose the wrong drive (I have two identical drives in my machine), I chose the drive to which I backed everything up to.  That install failed as well.  I was concerned the CD's weren't being burned well for some reason so I downloaded and burned the ISO on my work PC (using XP) and it seemed to work better as I tried the install once again and it actually completed.  When I restarted for some reason it was still complaining about my GRUB not being there.  I ended up opening the PC, disconnecting a third drive just to see if the power usage was too much.  I have had three drives, plus a DVD in it working for several months now but every once in a while it wouldn't reboot.  I was suspecting that it was under powered.  Upon powering on the machine I was presented with a GRUB menu showing two different Ubuntu's.  I chose the first one it, booted fine on the drive I was expecting.  That was when I discovered that I installed a second Ubuntu onto the drive I backed everything up to.  I shut it down, reconnected my third drive, booted up just fine.  I reformatted the second Ubuntu installed drive.  I don't think I lost anything all that important but one of the things I did do that I was looking forward to regaining was a list of the apps/etc that I had installed so I could resurrect some of them.
I believe my issues were hardware related as well I was doing things around the house so I was in and out all day.  Obviously my attention was not focused on the task at hand especially when I installed over my backup drive.
So far though I am pleased with v10.10.  I will now be spending a bit of time getting everything set back up to the way I like my desktop to be.  Am considering seeing if I can get Vista to run in a VM.  I have a license for it on this machine and only retain it just because I paid for it when I bought the machine.  Anyone out there done such a thing?

DooohHead
 		 	   		  
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