[GLLUG] Installing Ubuntu

[Chris Chan]

I'm pretty sure that Xubuntu uses Ubiquity, the same installer that Ubuntu
uses. But I've not installed any ubuntu from the livecd in some time (I
prefer the debian-installer based alternate cd) so I can not offer any
authoritative answers.

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 2:17 AM, Charles Ulrich <charles at bityard.net> wrote:

> 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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