Installer puts up confusing message about partitions in use
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu Netbook Remix |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Installing current build of jaunty netbook-remix from Mar 17, 2009 on Eee 900, I got a confusing message during the install that says:
Unmount partitions that are in use?
The installer has detected that the following disks have mounted partitions:
/dev/sdb
Do you want the installer to try to unmount the partitions on these disks before continuing? If not, the installation will continue and the disks will not be available as installation targets.
The options are "Go Back" and "Continue"
I saw that /dev/sdb (which was my usb stick that I booted from), was still mounted under /cdrom. Since I didn't want it to consider the usb stick for partitioning and installation anyway, I selected "Continue" thinking that it would continue and not make them available as installation targets as the dialog says. As many times as I did this, the error kept coming up. So I tried "Go Back" which actually made it continue and skip looking to partion /dev/sdb.
Attaching a screenshot.
| Paul Larson (pwlars) wrote | #1 |
| Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote | #2 |
| Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote | #3 |
This bug is reported in Ubuntu as 346589, and has a fix committed.