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debian-installer package

  1. Bug #1472939
  2. Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 1472939

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------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2016-02-10 06:07 EDT-------
== Comment from Pooja ==

Hi,
I am trying to install Ubuntu 14.04.04 and I observed that same problem appears.

Below are the observations:

1. If we create PRePboot ,swap and / after setting up partitions we get the error "Failed to remove conflicting files. The installer needs to remove operating system files from the install target, but was unable to do so. The install cannot continue".

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? This is an overview of your currently configured partitions and mount ?
? points. Select a partition to modify its settings (file system, mount ?
? point, etc.), a free space to create partitions, or a device to ?
? initialize its partition table. ?
? ?
? ?
? SCSI1 (0,1,0) (sda) - 32.2 GB AIX VDASD ? ?
? > 1.0 MB FREE SPACE ? ?
? > #1 7.3 MB K ? ?
? > #2 10.0 GB F swap swap ? ?
? > #3 10.0 GB F ext4 / ? ?
? > 12.2 GB FREE SPACE ? ?
? ? ?
? Undo changes to partitions ?
? Finish partitioning and write changes to disk ?
? ?
? <Go Back> ?
? ?
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Failure :-
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? ?
? Failed to remove conflicting files ?
? The installer needs to remove operating system files from the install ?
? target, but was unable to do so. The install cannot continue. ?
? ?
? <Go Back> <Continue> ?
? ?
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2. If we create only swap and / after setting up partitions we get the error "No PowerPC PReP boot partition is found", if we still continue the installation, installation will be successful but system will not be able to bootup as there is no "boot partition".

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No OS image was detected by firmware.
At least one disk in the bootlist was not found yet.
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