Preparing partition step in installer fails
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| ubiquity (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
I've just tried to install feisty-
In step 5 (of 7) of the installing procedure, I select "Manual".
- I want to mount /dev/hda1 (ntfs) to /media/windows
- I want to set the mount point of /dev/hda2 to / and check the "Format?" button
- I want to set the mount point of /dev/hda6 to /home (which is my old /home) without the formatting option
Bugs observed and reproduced:
- Editing partition /dev/hda1 does not allow to change the proposed mount point /media/hda1
- The formatting option of the button of "/" disappears
- Editing partition /dev/hda7: "Use as" field is empty (I have to set it to ext3 by hand)
- The mount point /home of /dev/hda6 disappears (it is reset to the empty string)
- The format button of /dev/hda6 is checked for formatting and cannot be unchecked
All in all, the Desktop CD is useless for me, for it would destroy my /home.
| description: | updated |
| description: | updated |
| Joachim Ziegler (ziegler) wrote | #1 |
| Nathan Handler (nhandler) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in ubiquity: | |
| status: | New → Invalid |
I think I have to withdraw this bug report, but please read on.
In fact, the installation process *has destroyed* my /home partition, but I'm not sure any more whether the bug has been in the installer or on my hard drive.
The installer informed me about a tiny extra partition of some 8 MBs. I have no idea where this partition suddenly came from.
After trying the install process (which aborted with an error message I don't remember any more), I tried to boot my old 6.10 Xubuntu. I got an error message saying "bad superblock on /dev/hda7". fsck refused to work.
My /home was lost. I started gparted to examine the partitions and discovered the tiny extra partition /dev/hda6. As I said, I have no idea where this suddenly came from. As far as I remember, my /home was my old /dev/hda6 and I never had a /dev/hda7. gparted said that it could not detect the file system type of /dev/hda7, so my /home was lost.
I used gparted to merge /dev/hda6 and /dev/hda7 into a new parition...
and now the installation process proceded without any problems.
None of the bugs reported above appeared again.
I am writing this now on my freshly installed Feisty Fawn.