partition size error during install of Quantal on Panda board

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/1042930

On Pandaboards:
If you boot off the SD card, you cannot install on to the SD card, you must install onto USB drive.

The debian-installer (i.e. text based installer from server-cd) makes it more clear, while ubiquity currently does not.

I will double check the instructions you have followed to make sure everything is correct.

I've installed to the SD card more than once.

Yes, Dmitrijs, with the Quantal Alpha 3 we could install on SD card using these intructions:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM/QA/Pandaboard
With this image instead we cannot anymore.

i was actually wondering since we switched to live images if we shouldnt better hide the SD altogether from the partitioner, the main reason to switch to arm live images was actually to avoid any usage of the SD card as rootfs device, simply because of the less than sufficient I/O performance on the SD ..
while you technically *can* install to SD, this install variant is super fragile, i.e. it might have happened that your going back actually selected to format the partition when going forward again which in turn might have triggered partman to wanting to rewrite the partition table for whatever reason.
all the installs to source devices i did over the last 5 years were definitely always a matter of luck if they worked or not in the end.

installing to SD shouldnt be a QA usecase at all imho and we should oprevent the user from falling into that trap

also reading the intructions on the wiki, i wonder why everyone adds "sudo sync" to their docs ... dd does a binary copy below the filesystem level, sync only flushes the filesystem buffer (so in the case of using dd before its a complete no-op to call it)

:)

@Oliver, I personally always used USB to install to for the same reasons you mentioned above. However, in general the preference seems to be geared towards installing to the SD, hence the instructions on the wiki for doing so. If we don't wish to support this type of installation, let's make the decision and setup the docs and tests to reflect that properly.

FYI, I believe the preference for using the SD card itself was that the pandaboard only has 2 usb ports, and thus a hub is recommended if your installing to a USB drive. But others would have to comment on the specifics.

On the sudo sync issue, I've no idea etheir, but I kept it from the original instructions.. I should have just gutted it, since over time everything in the original instructions has been re-written or removed, I think.

the initial idea for using SDs was simply because TI considered to possibly ship the panda with an SD card and we needed a way to make that work OOTB (that wasnt only the reason for SD card installs but also the reason for developing the whole idea of preinstalled images btw)

as long as this install variant is available we indeed need to test it ... but i would pretty much like to see it gone regarding the bad performance impression it gives.

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