Public bug reported:
I installed build 07/11/2009 of Karmic on a DELL Optiplex 745. I took the
option to install UBUNTU side by side with my existing installation.
Once installation finished, everything seemed normal, but I kept getting a
management notice that the UBUNTU partition was out of space. I think only 3
GIG was allocated. I'd suggest an option to let the user select space to use
for the file system/home directory. I had most of 160 gig free, and would
gladly have given UBUNTU half.
Firefox ran, and I was able to surf the net. OpenOffice writer opened, but I
didn't key up and save a document. Other packages wouldn't run. GRUB listed my
WINDOWS partition as DELL, but wouldn't boot into it when I tried to reboot.
I finally just booted my WIN XP CD, and did a FIXMBR. Windows XP was totally
restored, but UBUNTU was lost.
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Description changed:
- I installed build 07/11/2008 of Karmic on a DELL Optiplex 745. I took the
option to install UBUNTU side by side with my existing installation.
+ I installed build 07/11/2009 of Karmic on a DELL Optiplex 745. I took the
option to install UBUNTU side by side with my existing installation.
Once installation finished, everything seemed normal, but I kept getting a
management notice that the UBUNTU partition was out of space. I think only 3
GIG was allocated. I'd suggest an option to let the user select space to use
for the file system/home directory. I had most of 160 gig free, and would
gladly have given UBUNTU half.
Firefox ran, and I was able to surf the net. OpenOffice writer opened, but I
didn't key up and save a document. Other packages wouldn't run. GRUB listed my
WINDOWS partition as DELL, but wouldn't boot into it when I tried to reboot.
I finally just booted my WIN XP CD, and did a FIXMBR. Windows XP was totally
restored, but UBUNTU was lost.
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Karmic:WIN XP clobbered, not all installed packages work
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/398618
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