Ubiquity offers to erase existing OS rather than use entire disc even when more than one disc exists
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
In comparison to bug #1265192 this is a minor issue but I felt I should report it anyway. I'm testing Ubuntu GNOME Utopic Beta 1 candidates and noticed with a simple two disc setup where Trusty resides on one disc and the other disc is bare I get no entire disc option but rather just erase Trusty. But the button said Continue rather than Install now so I took the bait and the next screen does offer the choice of selecting either the 160GB drive where Trusty resides or the blank 80GB drive. I'll attach a screenshot of the options offered. I did abort the operation because I'm too busy to restore my backup if things should go awry.
Here's the output of parted -l:
ubuntu-
Model: ATA WDC WD800BB-63JK (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 80.0GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags:
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
Model: ATA WDC WD1600AABB-5 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 160GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags:
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 1049kB 158GB 158GB primary ext4 boot
2 158GB 160GB 2136MB extended
5 158GB 160GB 2136MB logical linux-swap(v1)
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
Package: ubiquity 2.19.2
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-10-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.14.6-0ubuntu2
Architecture: i386
CasperVersion: 1.343
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Wed Aug 27 00:00:26 2014
InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu-GNOME 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - Alpha i386 (20140826)
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
And here's a picture showing that it did provide the option of selecting which disc to use after clicking on Continue.