the kubuntu 6.10 installer won't use existing ext3 partitions
Bug #70547 reported by
Miki
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #67130: mount points preparation locked - "No root file system".
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Bug Description
I pre-formatted my hard drive using partition-magic 8.0, two ext3 partitions for "/" and for "/home" and a swap partition.
After manually choosing the mount points in the kubuntu installer, it still claimed that no mount point was chosen for "/", and wouldn't continue.
Only after going back a screen, and asking the kubuntu installer to format these partitions by itself, it would accept the choices and continue.
I am assuming the ext3 format of partition magic 8.0 is correct, because other distributions (debian sarge, fedora core) have successfully installed into such pre-formatted ext3 partitions, and the kubuntu installer itself recognized them as ext3 and swap partitions.
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"The advanced partitioning mode of the installer on the Desktop CD has trouble re-using an existing root file system, and will incorrectly claim "No root file system". Since you must reformat the root file system for use by the installer in any case, you can easily work around this problem by deleting and re-creating the partition in question in the advanced partitioner." <https:/ /wiki.ubuntu. com/EdgyRelease Notes>