In manual partitioning, choosing partition for "/" is non-obvious
Bug #191112 reported by
impute
This bug affects 1 person
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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ubiquity (Ubuntu) |
Expired
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
This was found in 8.04.
Boot from standard Desktop CD.
Run installer, select default language, keyboard.
Select Manual install
Select partition to install from list.
Select Edit partition
Set mount point to "/"
There is a check box on the list of partitions to make it easy to format one or more partitions, but to select a partition to install Ubuntu to I need to edit the partition, and know that I kneed to set the mount point to "/". Neither of these are simple enough.
I see two options:
Add a "Guided install to an existing partition" option.
Modify the advanced install to include an "Install Ubutu here" radio button in the list of partitions.
summary: |
- Installer Manual option confusing to use + In manual partitioning, choosing partition for "/" is non-obvious |
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I am assuming that you have checked manual partition and
now you are looking at the window with a list of the
partitions. When you highlight a partition, you see a
menu on the bottom of the window and one of the
buttons is for editing the partition, setting mount points,
and so on. It seems intuitive to me but perhaps I am missing
something. Please explain.