Comment 109 for bug 1396379

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rj (watchpocket) wrote (last edit ):

Now that the installer in the 23.04 ISO works, are we
sure there are ongoing efforts to fix the 22.04 installer?

Also, @tim-richardson, if I may ask, you've stated here and on AskUbuntu
that it's possible to disable non-target ESPs so that the 22.04 (and previous)
installer won't see them or act on them, by using Gparted to
un-check the boot/efi flags.

Oldfred has stated that he has never gotten that to work, at least when
doing it from inside the "Try Ubuntu" of the installer. I tried it from within the
installer, and also in the Gparted in an internal drive/20.04 OS, but that
method does not work for me at all.

Is there something more to how you're doing this that I may have missed?
(Apologies if this is the wrong place to be asking this question.)

If I and many others are ever going to get the LTS jammy installed, we'll have to use either a correctly functioning installer, or oldfred's workaround method in message #55, though I'd need to understand details of that workaround more than I do now.

I'd like to install the LTS release (jammy) but if the workarounds are such a hurdle,
maybe the easier thing to do is install 23.04 until the next LTS is released.
It'd be the first time I've ever used a non-LTS, because I hate bothering with
frequent new installs and yet again re-configuring my environment.