I'd like to see this in Natty or Oneiric.
It took years for Ubiquity to get an Upgrade feature, this is the next
logical step.
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offer to
It is unfortunate that no ubuntu programmer is proficient enough
(EXTREME SARCASM) to accomplish this task and cover all/most use
cases...
More to the point, what is wrong with the current implementation of
allowing advanced users to install over top of a previous version of
Ubuntu, deleting
Please do not reopen this bug. No amount of changing its status is
going to change my willingness to integrate this functionality into the
installer. This is not a papercut. Papercuts are *small* *usability*
bugs, of which this is neither.
It is not as simple as saying assign 10GB to / and
I completely agree in seeing the benefits of having a separate home partition,
I always create one myself.
However a root which is to small (10gb) will run into problems REALLY quick,
remember a LOT of apps default to /opt (i.e. vmware images non-free games)
some stuff goes to /var (this is
@Evan
There is no need to determine size for /home and for /
You simply offer to create 10 GB for root and if there is between 512MB
and 1.5GB ram you offer to double that for swap and if there is 2+ you
offer to equal the size for swap and just make those values changeable.
EX:
Ubuntu
This needs to be done. I know it is just some stupid user changing this
status but it really needs to get looked at and is definitely part of
the 100 papercuts.
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Status: Won't Fix = New
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Thank You very much for the comprehensive clarification.
On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:40:25 +0200, Evan Dandrea ev...@ubuntu.com
wrote:
As the description for this bug shows, there is no way to determine a
size for /home and a size for / that will suitable for all users and
will not cause problems
As the description for this bug shows, there is no way to determine a
size for /home and a size for / that will suitable for all users and
will not cause problems for a large subset of users down the road.
The manner in which we've implemented the ubiquity-preserve-home
specification does not
I think it's a very good idea. There are a few blueprints on Launchpad about
it.
Compare:
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/home-partition-integration-with-installer
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/install-with-separate-home
But I would add another remark:
When you
Duplicate of bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/lubi/+bug/139641
I marked my earlier bug as Invalid because this one is better explained.
See also : http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/5390/
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I just updated https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RecommendSeparateHome to propose
a better integration with the existing install process.
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-The first time an user installs Ubuntu, he is given the option to set a
separate /home. This option is selected by default, with a size for each
partition based on a sane guess:
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-Of course, he can just choose not to set a separate /home. This option
will be selected by default if the results of the system test suggest
that's the best thing to do.
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-Manual install is also possible. Selecting it greys out everything
related to separate /home, since it's implied that the user doesn't want
to be guided.
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-If the user set a separate /home, the next time he installs Ubuntu a
new option appears and is selected by default, prompting to use the
existing /home partition. All other options are still available, though.
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I wanted to report a bug, but now I'll wait :)
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This is part of the spec https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec
/ubiquity-preserve-home
** Description changed:
Binary package hint: ubiquity
A separate partition for /home has been proposed for a long time in the
forums, due to the obvious advantages it poses →
This is part of the spec
https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/ubiquity-preserve-
home
** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided = Wishlist
Status: New = Confirmed
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