[Bug 1040996] Re: Not offered "Install alongside" if other OS isn't Windows or Ubuntu

[Dmitrijs Ledkovs]

I was referring to the fact that you should know what you want to use on a newly about to be installed system.
I am merely stating that the existing installations on the hard disk has lvm volumes and that currently we do not handle the auto resize cases with LVM. The reason is that LVM is not trivial and suggests previous custom install methods.

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Title:
  Not offered "Install alongside" if other OS isn't Windows or Ubuntu

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  System is a MacBook Intel Core Duo - 2.4 Ghz - 4 Gig of RAM - 250 Gig Hard Drive.
  Was attempting to perform Test Case uri-001 - on Lubuntu 12.10 build of Aug 21 2012
  Previously installed System was Fedora 14
  According to the Test Case procedure under the heading, "Allocate drive space", the installer is supposed to offer a choice of installing Lubuntu alongside the previous system. 

  Instead it offered me the following choices:

  Replace Fedora 14 with Lubuntu
  Something else

  It should be noted that this was my second attempt at performing this
  procedure. During the first attempt (see comment under bug #1034954),
  the aim was to partition available hard drive space between the
  previously installed system - Lubuntu 12.10 build of August 14 2012
  and the system being installed from Live Desktop Disk - Lubuntu 12.10
  build of August 21 2012. A crash occurred  at the same point as
  referred to in that bug report. I added my comment.

  As suggested by Mr. Ledkovs (comment 9 under bug report #1034954),
  after booting the live install CD, I opened a terminal and ran
  Ubiquity from there.

  Thinking that perhaps the two systems were too much alike to be
  installed together, I decided to replace the previous system with
  something else (Fedora 14).

  That seems to have led to somewhat inconsistent behaviour from
  Ubiquity at this point in the Test Case.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
  Package: ubiquity (not installed)
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-9.9-generic 3.5.0
  Uname: Linux 3.5.0-9-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.4-0ubuntu6
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Thu Aug 23 19:10:29 2012
  InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/lubuntu.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash --
  InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Alpha amd64+mac (20120813)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: ubiquity
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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