[kubuntu-devel] RE: Please test alpha 4 candidate CDs

Jonathan Riddell jriddell at ubuntu.com
Thu Jan 31 18:48:42 GMT 2008


On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 06:37:04PM +0100, Sven Boden wrote:
> > As of the daily CD from Jan. 29 I couldn't install because of this error:
> > "The installer needs to remove operating system files from the install
> > target, but was unable to do so.  The install cannot continue."
> > 
> > that comes up while installing (after formatting the / partition).
> > This is with manual partitioning and keeping an old /home.  Same thing
> > with the alternate CD.
> > 
> > ~ Yuriy
> 
> Same problem here... I get first "Removing conflicting operating system files" but this hangs for at least a couple of minutes. I then press skip on the dialog and I get "The installer needs to remove operating system files from the install target, but was unable to do so. The install cannot continue.".
> 
> This was on a dual boot system, and if I reboot I get a grub 15 error, and the windows boot partition is completely erased.

What CDs are you using?  It should be fixed in today's CDs
(20080131.1)

Jonathan



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