The Geek Brewery

A number of Ubuntu 8.04 CDs from the Netherlands reached my hands just this morning — after three weeks of long wait; which was actually a week ahead from their promised duration.

I tried running it in a Live CD mode in a user can try the OS from the CD without actually installing it. Finally, they supported WPA-PSK personal preshare keys for Wi-Fi networks. Enough reason to use it!

I tried to install it a while ago on a different partition but I keep on getting PartitionMagic Error 983 (Too many errors found, process halted) and Error 1529 (Information mismatch on directory entry). I tried searching for solutions online. The solutions I found was to perform CHKDSK with repair and force parameters on then defrag then try dividing the partition again. I have done a million of CHKDSK with slash f and slash r (/f /r) parameters and defragged my hard disk but to no avail.

While logged in in a Windows environment, I accidentaly closed the CD tray with the Ubuntu CD on it. Then autoplay ran — there I saw that you can install it over Windows without the need of having a separate partition. And so I’m installing it in Windows now while making this post.

I’ll post screenshots of my blog, of Ubuntu and probably make a review of my experience later. Subscribe to my feeds for you not to miss the update.