Public bug reported:
I want two 320 GB hard drives to have three Ubuntu partitions each, with
VirtualBox installed and Windows 2000 Pro or other OS set up on each as
a guest. The idea is to make each it so that each VDI includes a lot of
disk space.
First install for Ubuntu went well enough. Only one drive showed up
though, but there were two images of it on the partitioning choice
screen. I selected Manual, then used that to divide the disk into three
large partitions for Ubuntu, and had three more for swaps. Each
partition install would get its own swap as a resulot. So six
partitions in all for that drive.
So far so good. But the installer lost it on the second install,
because the drive was now divided into six partitions, and the display
was too long. There were two horizontal scroll bars for each drive, but
again only one drive was displayed in the two locations. But now the
Forward button was too far to the right to appear on the screen. I
could not find a way around this. Going back instead, I found each of
the proceeding screens had now widen so much that the Forward button on
each was now off screen as well. So you can go back, or quit, but you
cannot go forward.
So, two problems: Two hard drives, but only one displayed, and shows up
twice. And when enough disk space is involved, the buttrons on the
bottom of the screen can get pushed so far to the right that they go off
screen. Why not put the Back/Quit/Forward buttons at about the center
of the screen and independent of the right border?
I also noted that there are some options missing with regards to the
partitioner. These include:
No way to designate an existing partition as the target for an Ubuntu
install. The choices are limited to reusing the whole drive, dividing
up the free disk space equally, or opt to go manual. Manual is too
advanced for most users to attempt. A few more choices might be better,
such as (R) Replace existing install of Windows or other OS on an
identified partition, (I) Install Ubuntu on some portion of remaining
free space, or (S) Set up Ubuntu as an application as part of the
existing OS (the last choice might be a bit tricky to implement, but if
you can do it, that might be welcomed).
Oh yes, if any one of the installer's screens wants to go off the deep
end in this manner, why not provide a driver disk so that some effort to
upgrade the screen resolution beyond 800x600 is possible? If there is
enough RAM involved, the changes could be temporary, or the drivers
could be also added during the final stages of the install as the
default settings for video.
It bugs me that the installer just assumed that only one hard drive was
involved. At least it appears that is what it did, or it simply failed
to present the second drive properly, just showing the data for the
first (or second) one over again. Even the drive designations for each
partition was exactly the same between the top and bottom showings.
Incidently, I did report this on the forums yesterday, but on
reconsideration, felt it was worth the added effort to work out how to
submit a bug report. It took me a long tme to find where i could
actually write up and submit this report, though many references were
turned up in my Google search.
** Affects: partitioner (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Partition Problems with Install Process with 9.04
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/376765
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