Strange behaviour from Xenial installer

[Xen]

There is also a bug (pretty long-standing) in Ubuntu (Ubiquity) where 
the installer won't work if you pick a mount-point for /var.

So for /var goes the same: if you want to use it, do it after 
installation.


Girard Henri schreef op 24-08-2016 9:34:
> I always make a swap partition and / partition.
> 
> For years I never had a problem : simple quick and efficient.
> 
> I remenber the old days where people said a lot of partition but that
> was good because hdd was not big !
> 
> 
> 
> Le 23/08/2016 à 20:08, Nils Kassube a écrit :
>> O. Sinclair wrote:
>>> I am close to giving up. For whatever reason the upgrade route via
>>> 15.04 and so on always crashes. Decided to fresh 16.04.1 install.
>>> 
>>> I have separate / and /home partitions, both ext4. Here comes the
>>> problem: the installer insist that my /home is ext2 and whatever I 
>>> set
>>> it to wants to format it. No thank you...
>> I would install without the separate /home partition. Then there is a
>> /home in the / partition (which is needed anyway as a mount point).
>> After the install is completed you could then write your own fstab 
>> entry
>> for the separate /home partition.
>> 
>> 
>> Nils
>> 
>>