yes, it is doing exactly what I suspected it was doing... instead of ERASING everything the way that it is supposed to do it attempts to do a RESTORE instead.
I think the number of partitions that you have is irrelevant. But for this repro I had 4 linux partitions and one swap partition. Only one partition was used, the others were left empty. The following was done in virtualbox 1) Install Ubuntustudio 12.04 64 bit, reboot etc. 2) Boot from the 14.04 Beta 2 64 bit .iso Run Interactivly 3) Probably irrelevant, but using file manager mount the partition with the previously installed os 4) Run the Installer 5) probably irrelevant, but when asked if you want to unmount the partition say No to keep it mounted 6) (x) Something Else 7) Choose to install over the top of the existing OS and do NOT format the disk "the file system ... has not been marked for formatting... (/etc, /lib, /usr, /var...) ... will be deleted during the install" 8) that is exactly what we want it to do.... [continue] 9) let'er rip... come back later. result: progress meter shows it copied files to about 85% then stopped and put up an error message "Error restoring installed applications", "An error occurred while restoring previously-installed applications...." In other words, It tries to do a restore over the top of the existing os, instead of erasing the existing files and doing a fresh install. The reason I got further the first time is because the os versions were almost identical. For this repro I deliberatly chose an older os to ensure that they would be incompatible. ** Attachment added: "screenshot of error - shows that it did not install properly but did a restore" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1296071/+attachment/4063626/+files/install-does-a-restore-instead.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1296071 Title: install over existing does not delete old - result in corrupt install To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1296071/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
