"Erase Natty" wording DANGEROUSLY misleading
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
ubiquity (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Critical
|
Evan | ||
Natty |
Fix Released
|
Critical
|
Evan |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: ubiquity
I just had the Ubuntu Natty installer completly wipe out my Windows install.
I chose the option to "Erase Natty and install 11.04". It gave no confirmation of exactly what it was going to do to the partitions. I clicked okay to erase Natty, and it wiped out the whole drive. (Thankfully, this is a secondary system, so all I've lost is the time I spent setting up Windows 7.)
I believe I had a partial Natty installation (installation failed even before grub, due to LiveUSB squashfs errors), so I was thinking it would erase just that -- but nope, apparently Windows 7 is "Windows Natty".
Oddly enough, there was another entry for "Upgrade Natty to 11.04"; now I'm wondering whether it was going to upgrade that broken install, or somehow try to upgrade Windows.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: ubiquity (not installed)
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-5-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Mar 19 11:36:21 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha i386 (20110302)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
Related branches
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu Natty): | |
milestone: | none → ubuntu-11.04-beta-1 |
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu Natty): | |
importance: | High → Critical |
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu Natty): | |
status: | Confirmed → Fix Committed |
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu Natty): | |
assignee: | nobody → Evan Dandrea (ev) |
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu Natty): | |
milestone: | ubuntu-11.04-beta-1 → none |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu Natty): | |
milestone: | none → ubuntu-11.04-beta-2 |
Samething here, I got my whole HD wiped (win7 partition) when selecting to replace ubuntu 10.10. And my install did crash before reaching the end (Alittle bit after adding user)