Comment 9 for bug 430333

Sorry I destroyed the evidence.

The fresh install with the smaller partition sizes DID work this time. HOWEVER it was strange... it took a long time to boot up, then after the desktop appeared GNOME complained about some non-functioning applets. I told it not to remove them, though it took numerous attempts to get it to stop asking. I used ctrl-alt-delete to get the shutdown/reboot menu. I chose reboot, and it seemed to boot itself twice, the second time apparently good to go. Everything looks OK now.

A restart -- and everything still OK (except for some cosmetic issues). A fsck didn't show anything significant.

I need to run now, but I will test this install a little while to see what does and doesn't work, then again try the full install all over again.

I will translate European (UTC?) working hours to my local UTC-0500 time and get back to you via irc if necessary.