[Bug 964331] Re: Ubiquity chooses which drive to install to with no user input

[Erick Brunzell]

I'll try to explain a bit better. If you have two drives and neither
drive has adequate free space (as little as 4.4GB for Ubuntu I believe)
and you select Use entire drive another window opens that'll allow you
to choose which drive you wish to use.

But if you have two or more drives and there is adequate free space on
any drive (could even be an external drive or flash drive/card), and you
select Install alongside then the installer just proceeds to use that
free space. The only way to differentiate what is going to happen is the
fact that the button in the lower right hand corner should change from
"Continue" to "Install now".

If it says Continue when you click on it a new window should open
allowing you to select which drive is going to be used and allowing you
to move the "slider" to adjust partition size.

If it says Install now then as soon as you click on it the installation
begins using the largest continuous available free space.

Quite simply, if it says Continue you should expect to be offered more
options, but if it says Install Now it really means just that. Please
see:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/766265/comments/34

Does that help explain things at all?

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Title:
  Ubiquity chooses which drive to install to with no user input

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I was testing Precise beta 2 live ISO, using the "Install Ubuntu
  alongside" option.

  I have two internals drives, and both of them have other systems on
  them.

  Ubiquity didn't ask me to choose which drive. I got a message to the
  effect that it was installing to /dev/sdb but NO "Are you sure?" It
  just went ahead and started installing. The only way to stop that
  seems to be to reboot.

  I would expect the user to be able to check that everything is OK
  before proceeding.

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