Takeshi,
Normally I don't like to say anything negative and I don’t mean this in a pessimistic way but the install of Ubuntu was the icing on the cake of a lousy day. I know that this is not the site to be talking about OS issues but it’s very difficult to use C::B if I don’t have the operating system to use it on so I will try to keep this brief.
To be honest, I didn’t read the reviews that you posted because you have been a big help in the past so I trusted your judgment. But the install that I had was a little more then shaky. On the other hand, it could be something that I did wrong and I admit that I’m still a newbie; So I want to review what happened to get your feedback or anyone else whom can help.
After I installed and burnt the copy of the OS, I immediately started the install after I had wiped the destination disk from a 3rd party program in windows. At first, I was real encouraged because the install started very quick with no BS. When the prompt came for the install type I typed “server” because I want a web server on this machine. After that the install was very quick off the single CD but it didn’t do a couple of things that concerned me a great deal.
First, it didn’t setup the root account or password. Second, after the install detected my network, it recognized that I wasn’t running DHCP and that’s cool but it asked for my IP, Sub and provided my gateway, it never asked for DNS servers …
The next thing that perplexed me was that no GUI ever booted. I was put directly into a text terminal. So when I hit that I was so lost that I didn’t know what to do…
With such glowing reviews, I’m confused why all of this happened…Just to be safe, I’m downloading other distribs to try, but if we can fix this situation; I would love to hear the answer because I’m usually the type to do a full install so I will always go with the full or server option…