[Bug 1833376] [NEW] Trying to Install Lubuntu 18.04 over hosed-up 16.04 on 32G thumb drive

[David-E]

Public bug reported:

Lubuntu 16.04 worked fine for long time (12.9GB FAT32 in front for data
to be accessible to Windows 7, then 16.89GB EXT4 Extended with 16GB
Lubuntu 16.04 and 1GB Swap). Hadn't used or updated in quite a while so
tried to install updates (to 16.04). Updates required reboot - but
somehow it locked up. Only way to get it started again was to kill power
and reboot - choosing thumb drive in boot loader. Every attempt gave
Ubuntu options - I selected current Ubuntu and sometime the other
baseline ubuntu options). Many attempts to fix but nothing worked.
Finally got 18.04 installer download on disc and tried to install to
thumb (that was this time). Instructions didn't seem to follow correctly
= it asked if I wanted to re-partition - I said no - then when I clicked
to install I was asked if I wanted to move the partitions with a picture
of partitions. I said no again - but it seems like it tried to split the
Lubuntu partition into two smaller partitions (at least that what it has
now - so if that's what it did of course there probably wasn't room to
install 18.04). +++ I will attempt to repartition the thumb myself
(GPartEd) and then try again to load 18.04.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: ubiquity 18.04.14.12
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.18.0-15.16~18.04.1-generic 4.18.20
Uname: Linux 4.18.0-15-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.5
Architecture: i386
CasperVersion: 1.394
Date: Tue Jun 18 23:36:46 2019
InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/lubuntu.seed boot=casper only-ubiquity initrd=/casper/initrd quiet splash ---
LiveMediaBuild: Lubuntu 18.04.2 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release i386 (20190210)
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

** Affects: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug bionic i386 lubuntu ubiquity-18.04.14.12

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Title:
  Trying to Install Lubuntu 18.04 over hosed-up 16.04 on 32G thumb drive

Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Lubuntu 16.04 worked fine for long time (12.9GB FAT32 in front for
  data to be accessible to Windows 7, then 16.89GB EXT4 Extended with
  16GB Lubuntu 16.04 and 1GB Swap). Hadn't used or updated in quite a
  while so tried to install updates (to 16.04). Updates required reboot
  - but somehow it locked up. Only way to get it started again was to
  kill power and reboot - choosing thumb drive in boot loader. Every
  attempt gave Ubuntu options - I selected current Ubuntu and sometime
  the other baseline ubuntu options). Many attempts to fix but nothing
  worked. Finally got 18.04 installer download on disc and tried to
  install to thumb (that was this time). Instructions didn't seem to
  follow correctly = it asked if I wanted to re-partition - I said no -
  then when I clicked to install I was asked if I wanted to move the
  partitions with a picture of partitions. I said no again - but it
  seems like it tried to split the Lubuntu partition into two smaller
  partitions (at least that what it has now - so if that's what it did
  of course there probably wasn't room to install 18.04). +++ I will
  attempt to repartition the thumb myself (GPartEd) and then try again
  to load 18.04.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
  Package: ubiquity 18.04.14.12
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.18.0-15.16~18.04.1-generic 4.18.20
  Uname: Linux 4.18.0-15-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.5
  Architecture: i386
  CasperVersion: 1.394
  Date: Tue Jun 18 23:36:46 2019
  InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/lubuntu.seed boot=casper only-ubiquity initrd=/casper/initrd quiet splash ---
  LiveMediaBuild: Lubuntu 18.04.2 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release i386 (20190210)
  SourcePackage: ubiquity
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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