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    ... So why does my laptop went from window manager to a whole schreen of gibberish during the installation of this linux distro ? ... I have patience though... and I still have my loading mouse icon thingie.

    Monday, 08-Jul-13 10:30:55 UTC from web
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      @critialcloudkicker Which distro?

      Monday, 08-Jul-13 10:38:55 UTC from MuSTArDroid
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        @bitshift ubuntu 12.04.2 desktop i386

        Monday, 08-Jul-13 10:40:52 UTC from web
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          @critialcloudkicker Huh, odd. I would've thought they had a more stable install process than that, given how big they are. Still, good luck with it!

          Monday, 08-Jul-13 10:45:15 UTC from MuSTArDroid
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            @bitshift To be fair to Ubuntu. This laptop should have died a couple of years ago. And unless if it is properly loaded right now. I am going to blame partmon ( Which I believe is a deamon for partitioning )

            Monday, 08-Jul-13 10:47:11 UTC from web
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              @critialcloudkicker Not for partitioning as such. It monitors how much free space is left on each so it can warn you when a partition is close to filling up.

              Monday, 08-Jul-13 10:48:57 UTC from MuSTArDroid
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                @bitshift I think I am willing to empty my ENTIRE hard drive if that means I can install this thing. The only mountain of a problem which I am looking up against... Is relearning how to reinstall and reconfigure GRUB... It should not be that hard but still, this thing is archaically slow in my oppinion.

                Monday, 08-Jul-13 10:51:43 UTC from web
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                  @critialcloudkicker I think you should be able to wipe the entire disk from the Ubuntu installer if that's what you end up deciding on. That'd install grub correctly for you.

                  Monday, 08-Jul-13 10:54:52 UTC from MuSTArDroid
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                    @bitshift Too bad I never got to the linux-y equivalent of diskpart

                    Monday, 08-Jul-13 10:55:41 UTC from web
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                      @critialcloudkicker Oh, yikes. It fails that early?

                      Monday, 08-Jul-13 10:57:43 UTC from MuSTArDroid
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                        @bitshift Jup. This bugs.launchpad.net article sort of blames partmon. And knowing how you normally install OS's I am going to say it crashes before the whole partitions thing, OR before the "can you test your keyboard for me ?" thing

                        Monday, 08-Jul-13 11:00:48 UTC from web
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              @critialcloudkicker And fair enough. It should still be at least a little less wonky in my opinion, but that does somewhat excuse it.

              Monday, 08-Jul-13 10:49:54 UTC from MuSTArDroid