Announcing migration-assistant

[Vincent Trouilliez]

Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> We're hoping to be able to turn it on by default once it's had a little
> bit of testing by folks other than Evan, yes; this is the same way I
> handled the new partitioner. I don't think we necessarily expect lots of
> feedback, but having a few people try it out will still be valuable.

Just a quick feedback from a pretty standard Ubuntu user :

I couldn't resist burning the latest ISO of the Live CD to try this
migration assistant, last night. I tried it on 3 different environment :

1) A Windows XP VMware VM
2) An Ubuntu Feisty VMware VM
3) On my "real" machine with 3 OS's (Two hard drives, Windows XP and
Edgy one /hda, and Feisty on /hdc)

In all cases, it never worked.
I didn't take notes so can't say for sure what happened where, but
either ubiquity crashed while starting the migration assistant, or in
one case I did get to see the migration assistant page, but it failed
to detect any OS/users.
I did like the idea though, and I found the GUI user friendly at first
sight, but as my quick experiences showed, it doesn't work at all.
It's not even clear to me if it's meant to import Windows accounts, or
Linux ones, or both.

HTH...

--
Vince