Comment 0 for bug 766265

Binary package hint: ubiquity

This is really a continuation of bug 652852. Please just begin reading about post #35, and apologies in advance if I'm just being impatient.

We've progressed greatly with this and I know it's not been easy for the ubuntu-installer team, particularly Colin and Evan, but I'm still concerned about the option to "use largest continuous free space" being lumped into "install alongside".

I have read the spec provided by Evan:

https://docs.google.com/View?id=dfkkjjcj_101gnkrpg5v#4_5_1_Automatic_partitioning_o_8475526086986065

Maybe I'm misunderstanding what this means, [maps to resize_use_free or use_biggest_free] ????????????

But ATM the fact is that "install alongside" will use as little as 10GB, which IMHO is good, but having chosen "alongside" and having no opportunity to verify what the installer is going to do certainly freaked me out the first time. Quite factually if adequate unallocated space exists and you choose "install alongside" the installation just begins - period!

Several questions come to mind. I've not tried it yet but what if I had adequate free space on each of two drives? How about adequate free space on a USB flash drive?

It just seems scary to have the installation begin with no idea what it's doing. Does that make sense?

I'm just trying to avoid any nightmare scenarios for noobs.

OT but I have tried the 'live-upgrade' and 'wubi-if-4-primaries-exist' options and they appear to work great, of course it's impossible to recreate every potential scenario.