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Unable to install without format
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Please look in to the latest Ubuntu, it does not install to an
existing RAID, I have started working and it has been 2 months since I
broke my system. I do not have time to file a bug report, as I work
for 14-16hrs a day as an accountant with a 2 hours commute.
The bootloader doesn't install to a
In Ubuntu 8.04, you can choose not to format the target partition; if
you do that, the installer will prompt you for confirmation, and if you
tell it to carry on it will remove various directories liable to clash
with the new install. (For the moment it will remove /var; we might want
to be a littl
Yeah, this is very strange behaviour that makes me remember an other
(obscure) operating system made by one of the richest companies in the
world, that would nuke anything that's on the disk, for the ease of the
user? do we really want to mimic the behaviour of that?
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Unable to install without
This is very frustrating. I can almost understand the need to nuke /,
/usr, and /boot, but /var? This is where my databases live and my mail
spool, among other things. I can't see why an advanced user would ever
want to blow away /var. Yes, I might create a compatibility problem for
myself if a
I personally just installed my system using debootstrap, bypassing the
installer. I wasn't best pleased about having to do it , but i'm
posting this from my ubuntu install - so it worked :)
I'd like a 'advanced' option perhaps, that allows you to bypass this
check, with a warning that states that
I had the same issue as Ian, where I wanted to save an obscure /archive
folder on a large partition. The installer wouldn't let me install
ubuntu on the same partition without reformatting the partition and
losing my archive. The way I got around the annoying message box and
didn't have to format
I just ran into this problem when trying to install Feisty. I did not
want to use the upgrade procedure (I was running Dapper and had heard
about all the problems in the Dapper -> Edgy transition) so I decided to
do a fresh install. However, I only had a single partition containing
both dapper an
For the time being, it is absolutely necessary to format from the point
of view of supportability; we cannot support a mutant system that
started out as something else and then had Ubuntu's files just dropped
over the top of it without cleaning out what was there before. Perhaps
in the future we'll
