feature Request: Installer Options
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux Mint |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
As outlined in my previous bug report, I just had an entire hard drive wiped out because the Mint 17 installer was not entirely clear. I am not a newbie, and have installed Mint and other distros many times. If this caught me, it's a serious deficiency.
The current installer offers two options:
1) Install Mint 17 BESIDE the existing OS
2) REPLACE the existing OS with Mint 17
3) Something else.
Option 2 offers the usual warning about overwriting files.
It is very easy to read this as "Will overwrite the files in your Home directory"
It is not immediately obvious that this option actually means "Will format the entire hard rive and delete every file on it."
Because my documents, and the backups created with Mint Backup, were all on another partition, I assumed that the installer would overwrite JUST the root partition with a new OS. I assumed that it would leave other partitions untouched.
I would like to request that the installer be changed to offer FOUR choices.
1) Install Mint 17 BESIDE the existing OS
2) REPLACE the existing OS Partition only with Mint 17
3) Format the entire drive and install Mint 17
4) Something else.
Honestly, it seems that 90% of users who want to upgrade want to do what I did: just replace the OS and leave everything else untouched.
