Ubuntu
ubiquity package

  1. Bug #99908
  2. Comment #16

Comment 16 for bug 99908

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jerrylamos (jerrylamos) wrote :

"The ext3 file system creation" failure is actually a failure of the manual partitioner. It reads like a "format" failure but it isn't.
"delete" and "new" are failing to do anything. The hard disk isn't changed at all.
"edit" with "resize" also fails to do anything.
"edit" entering the same size and "format" worked. The Feisty Xubuntu install went on to complete and boot up O.K.

I suppose I could crank up stand alone Gparted to see if it would work, but I'm a bit tired of this bug right now. Besides, I've had a couple Feisty partitioning problems causing loss of a Win 98 partition and loss of an XP partition, which I haven't finished re-constructing yet. If Ubuntu would do everything Win98 and XP do for this "ordinary desktop computer user" then I'd be on (several!) Linux's altogether.

The bug is the manual partitioner doesn't work at all in this situation.

Cheers, Jerry