Custom partitioning no longer possible with main ISO image

[Michael Lueck]

Binary package hint: ubiquity

Alpha testing with the Lucid x86 ISO image on 20100219, the step to configure partitions is missing from the installer. Talk on IRC is that question has been taken out, that Ubuntu desktop will install on a single partition, plus swap. NO NO NO NO NO!!!! Please do not do this!!!!

Please make some sort of accommodation for people who know what they are doing to still do custom partitioning from the standard installation CD.

[Michael Lueck (mlueck)]

I utilized the alternate CD from today (20100219) to at least get something installed. I was able to do the custom partitioning I wanted to, however the text mode installer is rather undesirable knowing how good Ubuntu's GUI installer has been. Took me quite a while to discover the Alternate CD's twist on mounting the CD just to install ubuntu-desktop. (Mounting to /cdrom/ rather than a mount point in the /media/ directory, no entry for the CD drive in the /etc/fstab, etc...)

Please please please put the partitioner back in the main install CD!!! :-)

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

"Talk on IRC" is, er, how can I put this? Confused? Wrong. :-)

[Michael Lueck (mlueck)]

@Colin: So what is the real story then?

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

This might have just been bug 523648. Could you retest with today's daily, please? Manual partitioning works for me there.

[Michael Lueck (mlueck)]

I updated my ISO as follows:

zsync -i ./lucid-desktop-i386_20100222.iso http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/20100222/lucid-desktop-i386.iso.zsync

After making a copy of the iso image to the new datestamp filename. The last update from zsync was as follows:

downloading from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/20100222/lucid-desktop-i386.iso:
#################### 100.0% 153.8 kBps DONE

verifying download...checksum matches OK
used 627728384 local, fetched 97034696

I tried installing, not the boot path that allows you to test the OS, the INSTALL menu choice.

I answered the questions. No screen with anything partition related.

The installer started, then shortly crashed, and up comes the "Live CD" interface, with the icon to "Install Ubuntu 10.04" and also the Crash Repoter said it had captured a crash in program ubiquity, so I click to send the report and then a screen comes up talking about "install.py".

Also, from the detail screen of the original crash report, I clicked to expand one of the details, and it looked like the code running was actually 20100219 code, not 20100222 code. Did the zsync not update properly then?

aaaahhh, looks like that is a problem...

$ md5sum lucid-desktop-i386_20100219.iso
813ebd0cee7935eabf0f110bcdbf22f4 lucid-desktop-i386_20100219.iso

$ md5sum lucid-desktop-i386_20100222.iso
813ebd0cee7935eabf0f110bcdbf22f4 lucid-desktop-i386_20100222.iso

So it seems the command did not update the ISO, even though it says it did. Suggestions? Thanks!

[Michael Lueck (mlueck)]

I retested with the A3 release, and indeed the partitioning questions are back.

I found that zsync creates a new ISO file, does not modify the existing ISO. That is the explanation for why the zsync downloaded but did not appear to have done anything.

Looking good - keep up the great work! :-)

[Jacopo Moronato (jmoronat)]

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