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Re: install alongside

 

Hi Phill,

I do not trust that option. Right now I have no suitable drive for
testing what might overwrite the drive. So I will remove my test report,
but I cannot change the test case to use a hard drive for dual boot.
Maybe someone else can do that.

Best regards
Nio

Den 2014-10-20 00:49, Phill Whiteside skrev:
> Hi Nio,
> 
> IMHO, asking a usb pen drive to do a dual boot seems rather odd. Maybe
> change the test case to use hard drive for dual boot?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Phill.
> 
> On 19 October 2014 17:24, Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi everybody,
> 
>     The 'install alongside' test case:
> 
>     Installing from a USB pendrive to another USB drive does not work. I
>     remember doing such installations many times before, but maybe I have
>     been using 'Something else'. I think this is another indication, that
>     the option 'Install alongside' is buggy and risky.
> 
>     See this bug report:
> 
>     https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1382991
> 
>     Passed or failed? I think 14.10 passes, but 'Install alongside' should
>     be removed, because it has creates and still creates too much problems.
> 
>     Please help me decide if we should consider this test case a success or
>     failure!
> 
>     Best regards
>     Nio
> 
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