Comment 8 for bug 313452
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| Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote Re: Jaunty: installing to existing JFS partition from existing Ubuntu installation without burning CD fails due to HD partitioning | #8 |
You made some comments about how only one partition was affected and so it shouldn't have had to touch the partition table. While this is great in theory, unfortunately it isn't how the kernel works. :-( If you modify the properties of any partition on the disk (I don't mean the data on the partition here - I mean things like the partition type, or adding or deleting a partition), then you have to tell the kernel to reread the whole partition table, which it will only consent to do if *none* of the partitions on the disk are "busy". Loop-mounting the installer from a file on one of the partitions on the same disk counts as that partition being busy. This is why I do not advise using the installer this way - it's very difficult.