[Bug 747279] Re: [needs-packaging] Clean-Ubiquity (automatic MBR backup)

[Rasputin Paskudniak]

This is an EXTREMELY IMPORTANT feature to add to the Ubuntu
distribution.  Every time I have installed Ubuntu, the process destroyed
my MBR and I had to recover my Windows boot followed by manual reinstall
of the GRUB from an Ubuntu-live CD.  Ubuntu is great one you have it up
but a painful installation process.  At least have the courtesy to back
up the MBR before mangling it!  Here is the software to do it; it
belongs in the distribution and should be run by default.

Now where is that "vote" button?

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Title:
  [needs-packaging] Clean-Ubiquity (automatic MBR backup)

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in Baltix GNU/Linux:
  New

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: ubiquity

  Clean-Ubiquity is a small tool (<100ko), written in Bash, that performs a MBR backup before Ubuntu's installation.
  No visible change for the user.
  Project page : http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1615667
  PPA: https://launchpad.net/~yannubuntu/+archive/clean-ubiquity/+packages
  Source code : https://sourceforge.net/projects/os-uninstaller/files/

  Its MBR backups can be recovered manually, but they can also be used by the 2 following graphical tools (now translated in 10 languages) :
  - OS-Uninstaller (allows to uninstall any Windows, MacOS, Ubuntu... in 1 click)
  - Boot-Repair (repair frequent boot problems, restore MBR, reinstall GRUB)

  DEB packages are ready, on my PPA, for Ubuntu 10.04, 10.10 and 11.04,
  and have already been included them with success in ISO of Ubuntu,
  Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu 10.10 and 11.04 (see
  http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1615667), and also Ubuntu
  derivatives.

  Integration in ISO is easy : Clean-Ubiquity needs 2 DEB (from PPA) and 2 preseed, one to launch a bash script before installation, the other to launch another script after the installation.
  Clean-Ubiquity and the 2 above tools have been intensively tested, and already used by ~10.000 French users.

  (This is not an April fool. :-)

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