Ubuntu desktop icons?

[arkroyalty]

The guides say that when you install Ubuntu, the desktop should appear with no icons and be clean. As I am dual-booting with XP, when I install it three filesystem icons appear on the desktop, Dell Utility, sda2, sda3, ie for XP, the other partitions on the hard drive. Is this normal, or not? If not what have I done wrong? I can't move them.

I am in the process of burning Xubuntu to disk (would like to have a bare bones Linux that I can upgrade as I wish). I seem to remember Ubuntu taking no more than 40 mins to download, but Xubuntu says it will take 3 hours! Why is this? The task manager says 99% is system idle process with nothing else in use.

Any help would be much appreciated.

[Juan Pablo]

Yes, is normal to have links to your mounted windows partitions, the ISO sizes should be similar as both must fit in just one CD, maybe the problem is with your connection or you are downloading the DVD for the three supported archs.

[Thrillhouse]

The guides say that when you install Ubuntu, the desktop should appear with no icons and be clean.

If you had installed Ubuntu on a machine with no other partitions on it then you would have had a clean desktop but Ubuntu tries to make mounting/reading your Win partitions easy so that's why they put the icon on the desktop.

I am in the process of burning Xubuntu to disk (would like to have a bare bones Linux that I can upgrade as I wish).

Xubuntu won't be any more "bare bones" than Ubuntu, just a different Desktop Environment. The rest of the install is pretty much the same.

[arkroyalty]

cheers

I noticed that when I rebooted xubuntu last night for the first time the grub loader worked fine. However this morning it shows two ubuntus along with XP, my original one and xubuntu. I do remember that when I formatted the partitions before xubuntu there was some residual usage - I didnt take much notice since I reformatted in the installation process.

Is there any way I can remove the other Ubuntu without harming the other two?

[bryansmith]

You could use something like gparted to delete the old ubuntu partition or you could reinstall xubuntu and delete the old ubuntu partition during the install.

Bryan