The elusive Feisty

By Steven Rosenberg on April 19, 2007 11:22 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) |

My Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty) download went from a 3-hour wait to an estimated 9 hours ... should I abandon hope and try again later/tomorrow?

In any event, my 6.06 LTS (Dapper) install is under way. The graphical installer is nice. Why Ubuntu's desktop theme has to be so brown and boring, I don't know.

Update: My Ubuntu install died at the disk-partitioning stage. The installer was trying to create the ext3 filesystem, and it stopped right there. Only 7 hours, 9 minutes left on my Feisty download (it speeded up a bit). Trying 6.06 again.

Update (12:15 p.m.): Things are speeding up, my Feisty download should finish in 4 hours, 5 minutes. Ubuntu 6.06 install wouldn't go past the disk-partitioning stage. I just loaded the Xubuntu 6.10 live CD ... and I've got to go to a meeting, so I'll continue with it later.

Update (12:50 p.m.): Meeting over, I started the Xubuntu install and got past partioning to "Failed to copy files; faulty CD/DVD? At least it gives me a hint. I'll check the integrity of the CD, then pull it and look for visible flaws. (Turns out there are a few scratches, but nothing too egregious.)

And 2 hours, 42 minutes left on Feisty download.

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