Ubuntu
migration-assistant package

  1. Bug #148023
  2. Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 148023

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J C Nash (nashjc) wrote :

I also was trying an install of latest Ubuntu (standard Gnome, downloaded 2007-10-01) using manual partitioning.
Disk ID is DISKNAME Ubuntu 7.10 "Gutsy Gibbon" - Beta i386

Machine is a 2K Celeron, 5/8 GB RAM, 6 hard drives and 2 optical drives (yes - a bit silly, but I want to play around a bit)
hda is a 30GB QUantum AS 30, hda1 has WinXP, hda2 did have Feisty but putting in the extra drives I had a fumble fingers and blew it away.
Hence opportunity to try Gutsy. Kubuntu installed OK. Did not like the setup (the menus had all kinds of extra text. Not sure how to report this.)
Then tried standard Gutsy (i.e Gnome version).

Migration assistant presented screen to choose to import documents etc. I decided NOT to do this. However, later on, I get a message that installer cannot UNMOUNT /mnt/migrationassistant partition. I ignored this the first time and got an unbootable system. On a second try, I opened a terminal and did "sudo su" and unmounted /dev/hda1 (the winXP partition) that was mounted on /mnt/migrationassistant. Since there was a copy of this partition on another drive (I'm trying to mirror), I got a second error pop-up and also had to unmount /dev/sda1 that got mounted on /mnt/migrationassistant too.

The install seems to have gone OK, but neither hda1 nor sda1 (the WinXP copy) appear as mounts. Looks like unmounting them took them out of the automatic fstab.

I'll be happy to help out by trying s/w to check installer, but would prefer to avoid full re-install if possible.

Prof J C Nash, Pres. Ottawa Canada Linux Users Group