Xubuntu install on Win7 laptop fails

[Liam Proven]

On 13 July 2017 at 21:54, Bob <ubuntu-qygzanxc at listemail.net> wrote:

>> That last line is a danger sign although not necessarily fatal.
>
> I don't know if it is a danger sign but that is how gparted does things and the
> partitioning program the installer uses. I can not speak to other partitioning
> programs because I have only used gparted but I think it is because of the
> brain dead method of assigning partition names by linux and I was very
> surprised by this when I started using Ubuntu.

Well, no, not really. Gparted doesn't do it. Gparted lets you do
whatever you want. It does what you tell it to. If you tell it to
create out-of-order partitions, it will. It is up to the human
operator to take care to avoid this happening.

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