I managed to get it sort of going, which is to say working as a UNIX system in familiar programmer mode, with no sound and probably no networking, but it's what I need. On installing 6.10 from the DVD, it craps out starting the X system. Cancel or exit out of everything until you get a terminal window. Typing exit a few times will cycle at the root window. Type (if you have a Navidia card; replace nv with ati if you have an ati card) $ sudo ed /etc/X11/xorg.conf /"nv"/s//"vesa"/ wq $ startx and proceed with the install. 6.10 has a bug if you're manually editing the partition table (independent of Vostro problems). When you get to the install choice, get a terminal window from ``Applications'' first. Type $ sudo ed /usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/validation.py /result.*MOUNTPOINT_NOROOT)/s/r.*/pass/ wq $ exit otherwise it will insist that you have allocated no / partition, even if you have. Be sure that you do, however. Sound will not work, and probably other things won't either. Maybe the Ubuntu October release will fix it all.
