Merge the Manual Partitioner and Mount Point step

[Aaron Whitehouse]

I have been testing Ubuntu since Warty and was thoroughly confused by the Manual partitioner.

I dual boot my machine Windows XP and Ubuntu. My disk layout is (I have one disk with multiple partitions):
/dev/hda1 Fat16 Dell Recovery Partition
/dev/hda2 ntfs Windows Partition
/dev/hda3 Extended partition
= /dev/hda5 Swap
= /dev/hda6 Root Partition (Reiser)
= /dev/hda7 Home (Reiser)
= /dev/hda8 Fat32 Partition (used to move data between)

When I reinstall Ubuntu (I do it at every milestone to test my Laptop make) I get the installer to reformat the Swap and the Root but leave everything else unformatted (I rename my home directory to get a 'clean' install). This means that I have to use the manual partitioner every time.

I spent ages clicking and right-clicking everything in the manual partitioner to try to change the mount points of the various partitions.

When I am partitioning my disk I am always nervous and to click "Next" without setting where the partitions were to be mounted was quite frightening.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

I absolutely intend to do this post-Dapper, but there just wasn't time to do it and still have something approximately stable for the Dapper release.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

These two steps have been merged with the implementation of the new partitioner in Feisty.