Public bug reported: I am trying to install ubuntu 11.10 over 12.10, because I absolutely hate the pgm "disks" in 12.10. It won't even format a thumb drive, and whatever I do in "disks" adversely affects the behavior of my hd, and in a way that I do not know how to undo. I lost 8 gigs of backup data using "disks" on a thumb drive. I have never complained before about ubuntu freeware, but I really do hate "disks". It is apparently for very advanced users. A time-consuming learning curve is apparently necessary in order to properly use "disks". I want a basic, intuitive disk utility that doesn't mess up either your thumb drive or your hd -- something that can do simple things like format a thumb drive without going to college, and without making the thumb drive unmountable. I am really pissed with "disks". I have never before had trouble installing 11.10 over anything, but now it doesn't want to install over 12.10, perhaps because of something "disks" did to my hd? In my frustration with "disks" I had used an old OS X machine to format my thumb drive, and had it write a classic Mac boot partition, because I also have a classic Mac, which I was going to use to format the drive if all else failed. But after mounting the drive in ubuntu, ubuntu insisted that the thumb drive should be there at startup. After that, it took me three days to get "disks" to format the thumb drive, and I don't remember how I did it, but in the process I made a different thumb drive -- wirh 8 gigs of backup data -- unmountable.
ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: ubiquity 2.8.7 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3 Architecture: i386 CasperVersion: 1.287 Date: Sat Aug 3 22:53:57 2013 LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012) ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE= PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SourcePackage: ubiquity UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) ** Affects: ubiquity (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: apport-bug i386 oneiric ubiquity-2.8.7 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1208109 Title: frustrated ubuntu user To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1208109/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs