Karmic Koala installation

As mentioned in the the post the road to Lucid Lynx i will be trying out Karmic Koala Gnome version as a test to see if i can transition from a customised Xubuntu version that i have been using over the years.

The Beta version of Karmic Koala shows the same cd boot screen that we have been used for a while, so lets start with the option ¨Try Ubuntu without any change to your computer”

A new loading screen for the desktop CD appears and it looks quit minimal, not too bad,

although some text based messages about crypto flash quickly before before going to the silvery black loading bar.

The Gnome desktop looks about the same on the live cd apart from a new desktop image and a slightly new color brown.

Lets not waste too much time and start with the installation right away with the “Install Ubuntu 9.10″ icon on the desktop.

The welcome screen appears and we will use “English” for the installation process.

Next are the “time settings” and have already seen the new lay-out since Jaunty, looks good to me.

For the “Keyboard Layout” i will use the suggested  USA.

I usually keep my / and /home on a separate partition since i can’t be bothered making a backup in case of a reinstall, this means i choose the “Advanced Option”.

Yeah!!!! always makes me feel good to be an “advanced” user .

I already had everything manually formatted as ext4 from my previous installation but it seems to be the default choice now. The /root will be used as ext4 and formatted and obviously /home as ext4 and not formatted.

The setup for the first user user on the system (the sudo account) looks familiar but there’s the GDM option to log in without a password and to require the password for the ecrypted home folder.

My previous installation did not have an encrypted /home folder, if i choose to encryption now on the existing partition containing my personal data should i have made a backup first? Well…lets not take too many changes and i still don’t feel to wait for a 30 minute backup to finish.

The next screen will show the options selected in the previous steps, so lets confirm this.

OOOHHHH!!! some flashy introduction appears during the installation, i must say Ubuntu is slowly shaping up to look like the, looking as slick as OSX, promise.

No GRUB confirmation? i think i noticed that the confirmation to install grub to the MBR already disappeared in the Jaunty version.

Restart the system or continue to use the live cd appears as usual, so lets give that a try.

The cd comes out as usual with the continue to restart after removing the cd

I did not time the time it took for the default installation since i have been writing this ans making the screen shots during installation but it should roughly be about the usual 20  minutes for the complete procedure.

As suspected after previous releases, even the BETA runs smoothly without any hick-ups and i must say it looks smooth

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