Hello Gorki Z Kaprem & welcome to U.E Forum.
I tried installing Ultimate Linux on my Acer Aspire 9410-2079 laptop. I had UBUNTU 10.04 Lucid Lynx installed, but thought all the extras on Ultimate made it appealing. It installed right over UBUNTU with little effort. I'm still trying to figure out how to get my Broadcom wireless card to find my FIOS signal, so I can access the internet. I've Googled a lot of UBUNTU specific instructions, but I guess I'm missing something. A project still in the works.
I next tried installing it on my DELL Optiplex 745 with Hitachi HDS72161 160 GB Ata hard disk. However, when I got to where I wanted to designate the partition to install Ultimate Linux, I got a notice that there was no operating system on the drive.
At present I have two partitions on the drive, the primary having Windows XP, the secondary having UBUNTU 10.04, with the GRUB boot loader.
When I am on the live DVD, I can access both partitions. So, it appears that for some unknown reason the installation program can't see them.
Now, I absolutely love the way this installation program was able to let me install Linux Ultimate, overwriting UBUNTU 10.04 on its partiton. on my laptop, a 32 bit system. I hope there's a fix or update to the installation program, so I can try it on my desktop.
I thought at first my problem was that I was trying Ultimate Linux's 32 bit version, but when I got and tried the 64 bit, the same problem. I checked the hash totals of my downloaded file against those listed on the Ultimate Linux site, and they match.
Incidentally, the 64 bit link on your home page DOES NOT link to the Ultimate Linux 64 bit version, but to the 32 bit. I had to go to a mirror site and find a link to the 64 bit one.
1- All your issues with the installation come from the Acer Image that you have on your HDD.
As Default Acer machines come with ISO Image HFS on your HDD.
2-
Broadcom wireless
you can see that I have post the issue with this card at this point of time (Under bugs fix).
you can connect your Network with wireless with no problem to the Hidden Network.
To do that - Log in to the modem/router - Go to wireless - add your Network Name+pass,
and give the options of WPA/WPA2 personal - save and EXIT.
Then connect from the Network icon ( right top bar ) - To Hidden Network ( see the post here in the forum).
3- About the MS Issues - well you can install MS in the VBox After you have the U.E on your HDD.
It will work Faster and it will not make all the issues that you have mention in your post.
4- Use Parted Magic for the partition creation work fine all the way.
Now for the second post of your's here:I tried both selecting Manual and clicking Forward; and System > Administration > Install RELEASE. Still got the samer error.
My Linux 10.04 install is a little flaky, since I did Upgrade vs fresh install. And, I upgraded when 10.04 was at the Beta stage. I would think that was the prob, if I couldn't "see" the Windows XP and Ubuntu partitions when running Ultimate in live mode. I am running from a usb flash drive stick, with the ISO "installed" using UNETBOOTIN. Unless that "shook up" Ubiquity somehow. I could try burning the ISO to a DVD disk, if you think that would make any difference.
To Fix the Mbr that you will see the MS USE the command with the MS CD (looks for post on this issue in the search) :
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fixmbr
This will Rewrite your MBR, and you will see your MS back.
Now the solution - If you have burn the MS from Acer in Advanced on DVD (with Acer tools),
Then you have nothing to worry about.
Use Parted Magic to format your HDD for Fresh install (After you have burn U.E on DVD not from MS burn option),
Use 3 party software Like Nero to Burn the ISO to DVD.
Just make sure to Burn on the lowest speed.
After you have it all done , Just format your HDD to UN ALLOCATED and Apply.
Then you can install U.E with no problem at all , After that the work with UNETBOOTIN on U.E will be like Game.
Hope I have cover the solution for you and the issues more clear now for you.
Good Luck to you.