Maverick Meerkat

[Che Guebeara]

My experience burning ISO's is that Ubuntu should quit shipping Brasero
as I have about a 50% failure rate on CD / DVD's created by it and those
that burn will only install off the original DVD burner. I installed K3B
and associated KDE dependencies and it works fine, with nary a failure
or quirky disk since.

Mark

On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 11:51 -0300, Doooh Head wrote:

> 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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