[GLLUG] Installing Ubuntu

Charles Ulrich charles at bityard.net
Thu Apr 17 02:17:59 EDT 2008


Judging from the screenshots here:

http://www.debianadmin.com/fluxbuntu-light-weight-ubuntu-based-linux-distribution-featuring-fluxbox-window-manager.html

The Fluxbuntu install procedure looks to be a lot less involved than
the Ubuntu installer, thus I'd have to guess that it uses its own. The
Ubuntu installer is quite good at not hammering existing permissions
without explicit approval.

I'm personally a big fan of Xubuntu. It's light enough to run well on
most older hardware and best of all it's frighteningly close to
vanilla Ubuntu in terms of UI and overall features. It's been awhile
since I installed Xubuntu, so I don't remember if it uses Ubuntu's
installer or their own, but I remember it being pretty user-friendly.

Charles

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 1:13 PM, Chick Tower <c.e.tower at gmail.com> wrote:
> I recently installed Fluxbuntu on an old laptop.  Two parts of the
>  installation trouble me, and I wonder if they were only in Fluxbuntu or
>  if they were inherited from the common install system used by all the
>  Ubuntu flavors.  Since we'll probably be installing some Ubuntu during
>  Friday's install-fest, I thought I had better find out.
>
>  Fluxbuntu might have eliminated all my other partitions if I hadn't told
>  it what partitions existed and where to mount them.  I had already
>  prepared partitions for Fluxbuntu beforehand, but I saw no option to
>  bypass rewriting the partition table during the installation.  Does this
>  happen in Ubuntu installs, too?
>
>  I was given no option about installing GRUB or creating a new menu.lst
>  for it.  It did pick up the Xubuntu installation (although it called it
>  Ubuntu), but it missed my Slackware installation.  Is installing GRUB
>  without any user input normal Ubuntu behavior?
>
>                                 Chick
>
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