I decided to re-install feisty on my ‘lapdog’. Shouldn’t be that hard eh?
I think it is important to re-install now and then, if only to bug/gotcha spot – so you can still help people with installation problems. (Also my laptop was running very hot, and lack of ACPI hooks left me unsure how to fix it). 
I always try to dual boot Ubuntu, with the other partition being a safe install – it was edgy, so I thought I’d blast that partition away. This way I can keep my existing feisty install for production.
Here are the steps I followed, to do a Fresh install of feisty:
Step
- Burn feisty ISO to cd
- Install
- Reboot and realise you installed the server edition.
Try again…
- Download the correct ISO (Live version)
- Burn the image
- Install
- X won’t start with my graphics card
Let’s try again..
- Download the feisty alternate iso
- Accidentally hit cancel and goto step1
- Burn the cd
- Realise you burnt the normal iso again by accident
Hit head against wall & find more blank cdr’s
- Install
- X still won’t start
- Find ‘fglrx’ driver from apt’s cache in other partition
- Wooo – now go to bed at silly o’clock.
I know I could have upgraded from the server to desktop edition, and reconfigure ‘xserver-xorg’ – but I didn’t want to. I wanted to ‘try’ and install from a ‘newbie’ perspective following the recommended steps. Ie, if Livecd fails – use alternate.
Now I know why not to do certain things when tired…
EDIT:
Bug well known – https://bugs.launchpad.net/xorg-server/+bug/89853