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[Marius-Cristian Vasilescu <marius@xxxxxxxx>]

Ah, I replied to Michael personally, instead of sending the email to the list.

The bug was already reported on 19th of March. Manual partitioning is
safe and I always prefer it.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/738366

I also spent a great deal of time because I checked the option that
would download the latest updates when installing a fresh system. This
would crash the installer.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/741962

Marius

On 27 March 2011 15:49, Michael Kogan <michael.kogan@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Seems to be the same, I just commented there. I tried a manual
> partitioning and it the same installer crash has occured (not sure
> about data loss since there was nothing to loose any more).
>
> 2011/3/27 Marius-Cristian Vasilescu <marius@xxxxxxxx>:
>> Hello Michael,
>>
>> What if you manually choose your partition? I think this would be
>> safe. I always choose manual partitioning.
>>
>> You might have encountered this bug (reported on 19th of March):
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/738366
>>
>> Is it the same?
>>
>> Marius
>>
>> On 27 March 2011 15:06, Michael Kogan <michael.kogan@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> A warning to all testers: I wanted to install the current daily image
>>> to perform this weeks tests and used today's live image. The installer
>>> recognized both the previous Natty installation and my productive
>>> system, an Arch Linux installation and proposed several installation
>>> possibilities, one of them: deleting the Natty install and installing
>>> the new system on its partition. I've chosen this possibility and
>>> thought that it would format the Natty partition and my /home
>>> partition would be save.  But due to some bug or maybe a misleading
>>> description it deleted all the files from my user's home folder! Also,
>>> it seems to have formatted one whole data partition (it was mounted as
>>> /target in the live session, though the partition with the old Natty
>>> install continued the installer files, too).
>>>
>>> So be warned and better use the alternate CD (I hope, the bug isn't
>>> present there). And backup your data!
>>>
>>> Michael
>>>
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