Solution 2 doesn't work : if the user chose a partition to be /home when there is already one called /home there will be two partition labeled /home. So, something wrong will happen.
I think it's a good opportunity to explain to user how he can restore his datas and what will happen. It is so much said it's a good idea to have 3 partitions (/, /home, swap) to install Ubuntu instead of 2 (/home, swap) because in this way you can save your personnal data when you reinstall, but it's very unclear how i would do it when I was face to it. I think, when you are right at the moment to install a new system, you need to have a maximum of info offline. Things I didn't know : - What about the user I had before, should I choose a new one (I think it's safer, but don't know)... - If I chose the same, the password is different, what will happen, what with all those compatibilities problem for the applications, will the system try to fix them (let say I was on 8.10 and now I install 9.10), will it overwrite my settings. - How can I access those old data, without touching to the partition at the installation, (everything was locked), (maybe the installer can rename the partition to /home_old (don't know)... so the new one can be installed without problem. Trying to help. -- Ubiquity crashed almost at the end of installation https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/234835 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