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 -- Partition Problems with Install Process with 9.04 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/376765 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs