Installer cannot remove files

[Karl Larsen]

On 03/15/2010 02:05 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On a recent Ubuntu 9.10 32 bit install, the installer would not format
> the / partition (sda2). There was a previous Ubuntu install in there,
> on a JFS partition. I tried formatting that partition to JFS, ext3,
> and ext4, but every time the installer would complain that it could
> not remove the files from that partition.
>    
     To remove files you need to format the partition. You can do that 
if you select manual when the install gets to selecting location for the 
new load.

     There is no bug here.

73 Karl





> In the end I installed Fedora on that partition as an ext3 partition,
> then installed Ubuntu there as JFS. Why could the Fedora installer
> format the partiton, but not the Ubuntu installer? Has anyone every
> encountered this? Do I have enough info to file a bug?
>
> Thanks.
>
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