Comment 4 for bug 346589
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| Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote Re: [Bug 346589] Re: [Jaunty] Misleading information when installing with mounted partitions | #4 |
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On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 10:54:50AM -0000, Evan Dandrea wrote:
> I'm aware of how horrible having UI here is, I've been wondering if
> there's anything we can do for the cases where we know that we have
> partitions that we just don't want to touch, such as in the case of usb
> disks created with usb-creator or mobile images.
>
> Unfortunate as it is, the dialog is necessary as we cannot reread the
> partition table of disks with mounted partitions. The buttons in the UI
> in bzr trunk are "Yes" and "No" with translations taken from GTK. They
> behave just as you would expect, "No" means that the install will
> proceed without being able to use the disks with mounted partitions as
> an install target, "Yes" tries to unmount them.
If I read this correctly, you've fixed the "buttons don't do what I expect"
bug, but the dialog is still there. Shall I file a separate bug about that?
I don't see why this should be unavoidable: we don't need to reread the
partition table of the installation media, as we're not changing it.
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- mdz