Public bug reported: Binary package hint: ubiquity
As Sean Collins also confirmed (in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/186147), *buntu cannot complete the installation when installing over an older Linux system: I set the installer to reformat ("F") /, swap, and /boot but keep ("K") my only other partition (/home), as is a common practice to preserve settings & user-files... got the same error-msg as reported in bug #186147, then copied random data onto / and swap to no avail, kept getting the error-message. For those of us who know how, it might (I haven't confirmed this) only cause an inconvenience of manually mounting /home after the installation completes (but it became a bigger inconvenience after spending an hour writing random data to all other partitions since the vague error- message talks about needing to remove "operating system files," as I assumed there's no way *buntu wasn't allowing me to complete a simple installation with the common practice of not reformatting _only_ /home" and figured I must be doing something wrong b/c "there's no way an Installer in a Major Distro could be so lacking" [or so I thought until I found Bug #186147]. The reason I can't confirm this part is that I just burned an openSuSE 11.4 CD, to which I might be switching instead of wasting more time w/*buntu's Installer...with Evan Dandrea doing good work so far but the alternate-CD, especially, was so bad before Evan that it needs even more of Evan's time to become even half as good as SuSE's RAID/LVM/crypto features.) ...but (A.) many don't know how to manually mount /home after the installer fails to let you keep it so it's not only a minor inconvenience for them, and (B.) this bug makes *buntu less competitive, as all other major distros don't give such an error. ** Affects: ubiquity (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/774753 Title: Bug #186147 (fixed as of 9.04) has returned in at least 10.10 & 11.04 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
