Installing the final release of Ubuntu 6.06 can have a few problems.

The paragraph below is now correct. I was flummoxed by what information wasn't provided. Getting input on how to re-activate partitions let me proceed with the manual partition steps and both rename and prevent formatting of additional partitions.

The disk partitioning task received a new graphical user interface in the final release candidate. This works OK if you chose a default installation, but if you are doing manual (do-it-yourself) partioning or having to re-name mount points, it scares you by not letting you know that it can be done. After selecting the partition that you are installing to, the next window lets you rename separate partitions such as for the "/home" directories, which permits saving the user files when installing/upgrading the OS).

Hu had an ethernet problem that I hadn't experienced. Contact him if you have such a problem; maybe the betas would eliminate that.

Support for wide screens (1280x800 and 1440x900) requires visits to the Ubuntu forum and editing a couple of files as root. Plus, you have to learn to use "[control]+[alt]+[backspace]", a different 3-fingered salute, to force a reboot with the widescreen resolution. Maybe I should ask Hu to help me get it into boot process. Anyway, I use 1280x800 and 1024x768 displays with the notebook.