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ubiquity package

  1. Bug #186256
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Comment 0 for bug 186256

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Stanley Sokolow (overbyte) wrote : [Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy i386 desktop alpha daily-build: Guided entire disk installation fails when installing onto existing Ubuntu system that should be over-written]

Binary package hint: ubiquity

Daily-builds 24 Jan 2008, 25 Jan 2008, and 26 Jan 2008 all fail installation from Live CD when using the Guided Entire Disk option. These installations were being made onto a hard drive that has an older version of Ubuntu installed on the partition #1 ext3, and the only other partition is the swap partition. During installation, the error message comes up: "Failed to create a file system. The ext3 file system creation in partition #1 of SCSI1(0,0,0)(sda) failed." When I tried installation again (without rebooting the CD), the same error occurred. Then I chose the manual partition method. I used the existing partitions, assigned mount point / to the ext3 partition, asked for formatting of that partition, and the system then installed. (However, I then found another error that was a show-stopper. See bug report #186246. )