Ubuntu
ubiquity package

Prepare mount points should show partition types

Bug #61994 reported by aspa
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ubiquity (Ubuntu)
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Colin Watson

Bug Description

during installation i made the following selections:
- Prepare disk space: Manually edit partition table
- Prepare partitions
- Prepare mount points

in the "Prepare mount points" phase, the user is shown all the disk partitions which exist. the installer asks for the user to choose which partitions to mount where and if the user wants to reformat partitions.

because this screen doesn't show partition types it is very easy to make mistakes in this phase if you want to install Ubuntu on a disk that already has another Linux or a Windows installation that should be preserved.

partition types should be shown to the user in this screen.

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Vassilis Pandis (pandisv) wrote :

I'd like to see this as well.

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David Millar (dwmillar) wrote :

Ditto the above. First time Linux install for me, so stupid compounds anxiety. I still have too much un-backed-up data!

An abortive previous Linux install left me with a successfully re-partitioned and formatted WinXP disk, but now two times the Kubuntu install CD has stalled at the point of reading the partitions.

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

The new advanced partitioner in Feisty no longer has separate screens for partitioning and mount point selection, and therefore fixes this bug.

Changed in ubiquity:
assignee: nobody → kamion
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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