ubiquity crashes with small partitions

[KBios]

Binary package hint: ubiquity

If I select to install (K)Ubuntu in a too small partition (I tried with a 100 mb one) when it is full ubiquity crashes. Instead, it should tell me that I haven't enough space BEFORE starting the installation.

Tested with Herd-5

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

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[KBios (kbios)]

I'm sorry, I'm new to LaunchPad. I'll remember this for the future.

[Peter G> (peteruithulst)]

I tried to install Xubuntu 7.04 on a 700 MB partition and that failed too, I increased the size to 1.5 GB (hey, this is Xubuntu, how much does it need?) and still it failed. The real problem from a user point of view is:
   > some program during installation will try to do something to the MBR (probably grub)
   > there is no error message saying there is something wrong, the installation just stops and falls back into the live CD environment
   > so the user happily reboots
   > after reboot the MBR is not showing a menu, it just claims there is no operating system

So no new Xubuntu, and no fallback to the Win98 that was still on the first partition...

I realised the problem after the second install, when inspection of the boot dir showed there was no /boot/grub/menu.list

I did succeed in installing Xubuntu 6.06, because 1#it told me I needed 2 GB, and 2# it even refused to continue until it was really enough (>2,026 MB IIRC)

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Thanks for your report. This is also bug 48355, and is fixed in Hardy.