I really couldn't disagree more. To not have such a trivial option as
to retain data on a partition is way too extreme a measure to ensure a
clean install. You mention there is no way to do this in general? How
about when the installer is about to create any system directory, it
first issues a r
Sorry, but there's no sane way to do this in general; who knows what
rubbish is lying around on that filesystem that might (and does, in my
experience) cause the installation to blow up? The installer has no
particularly sensible way to clean out just the right bits, and even if
it did I would abso
I felt I should mention, even though I'm using herd2 I ran this prior to
running the installer:
sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install ubiquity console-setup
This was due to another bug with screen graphic coruption and I believe
another issue related to the partitioner.
Hopefully I can run t
