Partitioning step not newbie friendly
Bug #91239 reported by
Jaap Haitsma
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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ubiquity (Baltix) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
ubiquity (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Colin Watson |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: ubiquity
The prepare disk space is a bit scary for new users.
It gives three options
1. Guided (Use entire disk)
2. Guided (Use free space)
3. Manual
My recommendation would be that ubiquity detects if another operating system is installed and gives a recommendation based on that. And also tells what the effects are of the installation.
E.g. when the entire disk contains a windows XP partition, show an option to shrink that partition and install ubuntu on the free space.
The manual interface is "very scary". An interface such as gparted would be better I think
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gparted is horrible and bad and wrong and has been intentionally removed. There's absolutely no way I'm going back to it; instead I will be progressively improving the current interface. SPECIFIC suggestions would be good rather than vague comments. See http:// wiki.ubuntu. com/Ubiquity/ AdvancedPartiti onerRewrite for the plans (not all of which are done yet).
If the entire disk contains a Windows XP partition, then the installer should already display an option to shrink that partition and install Ubuntu in the free space. Please attach /var/log/syslog and /var/log/partman (/var/log/ installer/ syslog and /var/log/ installer/ partman if you've completed the installation) to this bug so that I can determine why this didn't happen.