Following up on the last post: I successfully
installed Ubuntu 5.04 from the
live CD: it detected all
my Linux partitions, gave me the options to use reiserfs on all of
them, allowed me to specify where /var /tmp /usr and /boot mount (I
probably could have also specified where /usr/local gets mounted,
but I would have needed another partition and didn't want to shrink
existing ones to get disk space for the new one), and properly
configured GRUB to choose between the various Ubuntu boots (kernel
2.6.10-5-386, same kernel in single user mode, memtest86+) and MS
XP Home. I didn't put /var and /tmp in the /root partition, because
if for some reason /var or /tmp get too large, I didn't want to
fill /root up.
Booting the live CD with the option not to use dhcp gave me screens
to set up a static IP, broadcast IP, gateway IP and nameservers IP
(using my desktop which runs
squid).
Poking around, I found the
Unofficial Ubuntu 5.04 Starter Guide,
which gives instructions on
how to add
unsupported apt repositories, and after following the easy to
follow steps, I installed
gmemusage,
gkrellm,
ncftp and
fvwm. Later, I'll grab my .fvwm2rc file
(fvwm's configuration file; I use the
White Magic
Desktop), from my desktop and maybe the background I use.
After that, I'll see about setting up my wireless card.