Trouble installing 18.04 server dual boot on laptop

[Eric Fort]

Ah ok the difference here apparently is the difference between 18.04 and 18.04.01


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> On Aug 18, 2018, at 7:40 AM, Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> 
> hi,
> Am Samstag, den 18.08.2018, 07:26 -0700 schrieb Eric Fort:
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>>> 
>>> On Aug 18, 2018, at 1:34 AM, Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> hi,
>>> Am Freitag, den 17.08.2018, 00:38 -0700 schrieb Eric Fort:
>>>> 
>>>> T
>>>> 2. The installer won’t seem to allow installation in a dual boot
>>>> config,  it wants to use the entire disk and install mostly
>>>> automatically.  I need more control over the install.
>>> This works fine here... if you select manual install, you can
>>> manually
>>> create all partitions (or a LVM or RAID) and it will happily do a
>>> dual-
>>> boot installation if you partitioned it to do so (this is also one
>>> of
>>> the general iso tests before release, so this also has been tried
>>> by
>>> others (you can check results on http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/))
>> Works fine here too
> 
> well, i did test it in a virtualbox win10 instance i had around here
> before even posting (because your post got me curious) ... using [1]
> 
>>> 
>> I beg to differ based upon this recent experience. The live cd server
>> installer will continue to send you back to partitioning until you
>> create a swap partition. 
> 
> see above, i tested this too ... 
> 
> again ... you really need to use the 18.04.1 installer, 18.04 is not
> sufficient and the new installer was lacking a lot of features before
> .1 (as usual, LTSes should not be used in production environments
> before .1 is released (and the meta file is updated to provide the
> auto-updates for LTS->LTS upgrades))
> 
> ciao
>    oli
> 
> [1] http://releases.ubuntu.com/18.04.1/ubuntu-18.04.1-live-server-amd64
> .iso
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