Karmic (Beta) Test Installs

Tom H tomh0665 at gmail.com
Wed Oct 7 15:05:35 UTC 2009


>> I re-installed Karmic twice tonight. Both installs went fine even
>> though I was re-installing onto a partition with a Karmic install.

>> ***But I used the "custom/advanced/whatever_it_is_actually_called"
>> partition option in step 4 because I was re-installing on a partition
>> not en entire disk.***

>> (I did two installs because the first time I was re-installing onto an
>> ext3 partition and wanted to check whether re-installing onto an ext4
>> partition would be different.)

> I'll try testing using 'Specify partitions manually (advanced) to see if
> I get same/similar results. Screenshots of my 'Erase and use the entire
> disk' efforts are in the screenshots on the bug I filed.

> Just finished reinstalling via the Alternate CD (guided - use the entire
> drive) to make sure no issues with the drive. Worked fine.

> Thanks for testing on the partition installs. I suspect that it is
> something wrong with the 'Erase and use the entire disk' routine.

You're welcome. It must be; or a combination of using "erase and use
the entire disk" and having two disks.




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