Hi All
Appreciate so many fast responses, so before anyone wastes any time on it, here's an update.
Motivation: I want to show off Ubuntu at the appropriate speed Secondly: It blows the 'difficult to install' myth right out of the water
Instructions as before with these corrections: Packages needed (I think, see problem below)
morphixinstaller_0.5-6_i386.deb os-prober gengrubmenu2 (Got off net, probably on HoaryCD as well grub (Hoary CD) grub-installer (HoaryCD) pivotroot (can't remember where I got it, net I think, probably Hoary)
OK -what I THOUGHT was causing the installer to segfault with the last instructions was permissions on some file or other (Or the absense of pivot_root).
Interestingly with all of the above, I STILL segfaulted on the partitioning stage.
Reason: I THINK the reason was that no partition had been created. I created a 2gb ntfs and left the rest free. This confused morphixinstaller under both sets of instructions.
The spare PC is loading fine now (Oh, just finished, loading, congratulating, rebooting) Looks like instructions set one MAY have worked only for my disk layout.
Thanks for all the replies. I'll take stock and post tomorrow evening with something substantial and keep a fleeting eye on the mailbox meanwhile! Mel
ps: Dammit, grub didn't setup right...
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