I evaluated more the alternative installation method, "Installing Ubuntu from a Unix/Linux System" and I have further suggestions.
First of all, languages and locales. By following the guide to the letter one still will not have a full native language support. It turns out that additional steps are necessary. Also, the default user is missing several useful abilities by not being added to the right groups. SUGGESTIONS: 1. After installing "ubuntu-desktop" using tasksel one should issue: # sudo apt-get install language-support-de or similar (just change "-de" to another language) to get a full native language support. 2. It's also necessary to run: # sudo tzconfig to prevent the system from warning about time zone being set to "Unknown" at the first system upgrade. This is especially annoying, as one must click on the embedded "Terminal" control inside Synaptics progress window and type "y", name of the region and capital *while doing the upgrade*. (user surprised, upgrade seems to "hang") 3. It may be also advisable to run: # sudo editor /etc/default/rcS and change "UTC=yes" to "UTC=no" if one doesn't want to use universal time (it's wise to turn off UTC if one runs Windows on the same machine, for example). 4. Default system-wide locale can be set by issuing: # sudo echo LANGUAGE=\"de_DE:de:en_US:en\" >> /etc/environment # sudo echo LANG=de_DE.UTF8 >> /etc/environment (substitute de_DE:de for any other language you need). This influences the default language on the gdm login screen. 5. Default user (with administrative privileges) cannot hear or play any sound by default, as well as doing some typical activities like using USB disks. It's easy to change this by adding the account to the right groups: # sudo adduser myusername cdrom floppy audio plugdev If you think it's worth to add some more commands to the guide in order to make it more on par with default Ubuntu installation, then please consider to do so. Especially since the guide recommends to install "ubuntu-desktop" task, but doesn't help with setting the system in a similar way like the LiveCD installer does. -- [Edgy] installation-guide-i386 - several steps are misleading or cannot be finished https://launchpad.net/bugs/64765 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
