Re: Anyone having issues installing 12.04?

2012-02-03 Thread Chris Robinson
From: Stephen Rees-Carter To: Chris Robinson Cc: Ubuntu AU List Sent: Friday, 3 February 2012 12:59 PM Subject: Re: Anyone having issues installing 12.04? > I don't think it's a bug - I think someones actually thought it through > (fing

Re: Anyone having issues installing 12.04?

2012-02-02 Thread Joel Pickett
On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Paul Gear wrote: > On 03/02/12 11:34, Stephen Rees-Carter wrote: > > Hi Daniel, > > > > Sorry, let me explain my "over the top of" :) > > > > My HDD is partitioned into three: a root (/) partition, a /home > > partition and swap. > > So what I am doing is telling t

Re: Anyone having issues installing 12.04?

2012-02-02 Thread Paul Gear
On 03/02/12 11:34, Stephen Rees-Carter wrote: > Hi Daniel, > > Sorry, let me explain my "over the top of" :) > > My HDD is partitioned into three: a root (/) partition, a /home > partition and swap. > So what I am doing is telling the installer to format my root > partition and leave the /home unfo

Re: Anyone having issues installing 12.04?

2012-02-02 Thread Stephen Rees-Carter
let users do it without backing up data however - bad things or fat > fingers can still happen. > > > Chris > > > From: Stephen Rees-Carter > To: Ubuntu AU List > Sent: Friday, 3 February 2012 8:02 AM > Subject: Anyone having issues

Re: Anyone having issues installing 12.04?

2012-02-02 Thread Chris Robinson
___ From: Stephen Rees-Carter To: Ubuntu AU List Sent: Friday, 3 February 2012 8:02 AM Subject: Anyone having issues installing 12.04? Hi all, Is anyone testing 12.04 and having issues with the installer? I'm trying to install over the top of an 11.10 install and I keep getting the insta

Re: Anyone having issues installing 12.04?

2012-02-02 Thread Stephen Rees-Carter
Hi Daniel, Sorry, let me explain my "over the top of" :) My HDD is partitioned into three: a root (/) partition, a /home partition and swap. So what I am doing is telling the installer to format my root partition and leave the /home unformatted but mounted as /home. Make more sense? I prefer to

Re: Anyone having issues installing 12.04?

2012-02-02 Thread danyJ
On Fri, 3 Feb 2012 09:02:34 +1100 Stephen Rees-Carter wrote: Hi Stephen, Not sure what you mean by installing "over the top of 11.10"? I'd say its best to do a proper upgrade, or ask it to reformat everything and wipe off 11.10. (you would have saved your data files?) If you are already runni

Anyone having issues installing 12.04?

2012-02-02 Thread Stephen Rees-Carter
Hi all, Is anyone testing 12.04 and having issues with the installer? I'm trying to install over the top of an 11.10 install and I keep getting the installer hanging at: "Removing conflicting operating system files". I think it is occurring because I am asking the partitioner to install over the