Regarding your question about running a stripped down default boot,
you can achieve this partially by running a non-default window manager
that isn't so heavy as Gnome or KDE's defaults. I personally run
Debian on my systems (from which Ubuntu is derived) and use fluxbox as
my window manager. It
Michael:
Tomorrow I will follow your guidelines.
I reinstalled Ubuntu again from the CD (had to turn off modeset in the
boot parameters) and it took.
I told Ubuntu that the MBR was on sda which is hd0.
When Ubuntu told me to reboot the system, I removed the CD, watched it
reboot
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On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 22:06:56 -0500
Richard Owlett dijo:
>I have Ubuntu 10.10 up and running in test mode from a USB drive.
>
>My first impression is that the default installation suffers from
>the same problems as Windows - trying to be "all things to all
>people" while NOT supplying some speci