Public bug reported:
I've got four partitions on this laptop: a hidden fat32 OEM-supplied
Windows XP recovery partition, a SWAP partition, a root partition and a
home partition.
I got two choices in the partition section of the installer; use the
whole disk or manual. I chose manual mode. (screenshot 1) I didn't want
the XP partition mounted or formatted, so I left it like it was - and
removed the suggested mounting path. I chose to format the root
partition. I wanted to keep the user, so I only chose to mount the home
partition on /home and left it without formatting it. (screenshot 2)
Then I clicked next.
The import user section told me there were no users to import.
The import case should be easy, since the home partition isn't
formatted. You could even let the user be imported directly, keeping the
password and the group membership for default groups by parsing a couple
of files in the old /etc before formatting the root partition.
At least, the user's data should be importable without any doubt.
** Affects: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Installer doesn't offer import of user even if home partition is left untouched
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/156296
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