On 05.03.15 11:06, Trent W. Buck wrote:
Erik Christiansen writes:
Downloaded ubuntu-14.04.2-desktop-i386.iso, and burnt a CD. [problems detecting/configuring the disk]
NFI what ubiquity (the GUI installer) looks like these days, but IIRC I did a 14.04 install recently using debian-installer, and it worked the same way it always has.
That's this: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/trusty/main/installer-amd64/current/i...
(Change "amd64" to "i386" if you insist.)
Not being game to assume that amd64 would work on my old intel motherboard, I did hunt out i386 for the ubuntu install. The installer which came with Debian+LXDE, a couple of years back, was smooth enough - but the laptop drive already had MSW on it, so had a partition to hack. I'm not quite so keen to buy more GUI trouble when a few minutes with parted can give me root (boot), swap, and the_rest, partitions, in a more accessible way than the GUI. (I expect) Over a decade I haven't yet filled the old 40 GB drive (the twin is a mirror), so it's hard to go far wrong in a new 320 GB paddock, I figure. (An extra GB or two of root or swap is cheap insurance) Erik -- Why make things difficult, when it is possible to make them cryptic and totally illogical, with just a little bit more effort?" - A. P. J.