[Bug 1910434] Re: Better feedback when partitioning during installation and all 4 primary partitions are in use

[Brian Murray]

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Title:
  Better feedback when partitioning during installation and all 4
  primary partitions are in use

Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
   affects ubuntu

  During the installation procedure from a Live USB disk, I was installing
  Linux on a hard drive with Windows.  During the partitioning step, I chose
  "something else" to keep Windows.  Although I had already made extra
  unpartitioned space for Linux, it showed this space as "unusable" and
  wouldn't let me choose it for installation.  The reason turned out to be
  that Windows was already using all 4 primary partitions, which is the
  maximum allowed for an MBR partitioning scheme, so I had to delete one.

  It would be good for the installer to inform users that this is the reason
  the unpartitioned space is unusable, rather than just greying out the
  button to create a partition there.  New users might not be able to figure
  this out, and might not know about the 4 partition limit.  This issue is
  important so that installation is as clear and easy as possible so that
  people won't be scared away from switching to Linux.

  Technically I was installing Linux Mint, but Mint takes this partitioning
  dialog from Ubuntu, so the issue exists for Ubuntu too.

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