[Cialug] Installing Xubuntu

[Stuart Thiessen]

There is an option on a menu after installation. But I don't see how to 
get to it from the regular text install. It wants to install Grub 
automatically. I didn't see an option to force lilo instead.

Stuart

On Apr 2, 2007, at 14:42, David Champion wrote:

> Is there an option to use good old reliable lilo instead of grub?
>
> -dc
>
> Stuart Thiessen wrote:
>> I was installing Xubuntu 6.10 on an older machine that has a 20G hard 
>> drive and 1 CD-RW and 1 CD-ROM drive. When I installed it the first 2 
>> times from the CD (using the text mode install), I told it to use the 
>> whole drive and automatically partition it. Then when I rebooted from 
>> the hard drive it gave me a Grub error 18 which from what I 
>> understand basically means that my booting partition was too big for 
>> the BIOS??
>> So try #3 (third time is supposed to be the charm, right?), I 
>> manually set up the partitions and set up a 4GB boot partition, and 
>> then left the rest to / and swap. I rebooted from the hard drive, and 
>> now I have a Grub error 17 which I am now researching.
>> Any suggestions?
>> Thanks,
>> Stuart
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