installation media shown in list of devices available for installation on a Mac

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement]

Precise Desktop 20120402 amd64+mac

On a Mac mini, the USB stick used for installation (sdb in the screenshot) is shown in the list of target devices available for installation at the partitioning step.

On a non-Mac system the installation device is not listed.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: ubiquity 2.10.5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-21.34-generic 3.2.13
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-21-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.313
Date: Mon Apr 2 10:19:07 2012
InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash -- maybe-ubiquity
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta amd64+mac (20120402)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

This happens because the installation medium doesn't use up the whole disk, so the installer assumes that it's possible you might be trying to use the rest of the disk as part of a more conventional installation. Some people do in fact want to do this, IME. That said, maybe we can tweak the limits, as this disk is fairly small.

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

This release of Ubuntu is no longer receiving maintenance updates. If this is still an issue on a maintained version of Ubuntu please let us know.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for ubiquity (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]