Xubuntu install on Win7 laptop fails

[Bob]

** Reply to message from Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> on Fri, 14 Jul 2017
13:13:52 +0200

> 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.

No, I do not tell gparted to create an out-of-order partition.  I tell gparted
to create a partition, then depending on what has been done in the past gparted
my do strange things when it creates the partition.  This is because linux is
brain dead when it comes to partition identifiers, I think they may be trying
to fix the problem but they are not there yet.

-- 
Robert Blair


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