On 05.03.15 08:45, Keith BAINBRIDGE wrote:
Just had this thought. Fire up gparted in ubuntu while still in trial mode and create whtever partitions you need. Then proceed with intallation
Many thanks, Keith. That worked fine. However, booting Ubuntu 14.04.2 was interminably slow, eventually presenting only a _totally_ blank desktop, devoid of any menu or icon, and no apparent way to invoke an xterm. (Mouse clickies only offered a folder or a document) So from 5.10 to 10.04 seems to be the extent of my history with Ubuntu. Debian+LXDE on the laptop is giving me no grief, so now I just needed a more recent iso for the desktop. That needed some ingenuity. At http://mirror.internode.on.net/ I was unable to find any debian iso, and selecting i386 at https://www.debian.org/distrib/netinst#verysmall then selecting CDROM presents weird stuff. The first archive has a win32.exe in it! No iso. But a quick google gave me https://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/debian-installer/ which at "netinst CD image" actually presented an iso, instead of leading back to the same weird stuff as at the netinst link in the previous paragraph, as the naming similarity threatened. Phew! The new "improved" installation methods being pushed, with their excess of instructions and complications seem an enormous step backwards. What's wrong with "whack it in and reboot"? Erik -- Anything can be impossible, given sufficient bureaucracy.