Merge the Manual Partitioner and Mount Point step
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ubiquity (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
|
Colin Watson | ||
Bug Description
I have been testing Ubuntu since Warty and was thoroughly confused by the Manual partitioner.
I dual boot my machine Windows XP and Ubuntu. My disk layout is (I have one disk with multiple partitions):
/dev/hda1 Fat16 Dell Recovery Partition
/dev/hda2 ntfs Windows Partition
/dev/hda3 Extended partition
= /dev/hda5 Swap
= /dev/hda6 Root Partition (Reiser)
= /dev/hda7 Home (Reiser)
= /dev/hda8 Fat32 Partition (used to move data between)
When I reinstall Ubuntu (I do it at every milestone to test my Laptop make) I get the installer to reformat the Swap and the Root but leave everything else unformatted (I rename my home directory to get a 'clean' install). This means that I have to use the manual partitioner every time.
I spent ages clicking and right-clicking everything in the manual partitioner to try to change the mount points of the various partitions.
When I am partitioning my disk I am always nervous and to click "Next" without setting where the partitions were to be mounted was quite frightening.
| Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in ubiquity: | |
| status: | Unconfirmed → Confirmed |
| Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in ubiquity: | |
| assignee: | nobody → kamion |
| status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
I absolutely intend to do this post-Dapper, but there just wasn't time to do it and still have something approximately stable for the Dapper release.