Anyone having issues installing 12.04?

[Stephen Rees-Carter]

Hi Daniel,

Sorry, let me explain my "over the top of" :)

My HDD is partitioned into three: a root (/) partition, a /home
partition and swap.
So what I am doing is telling the installer to format my root
partition and leave the /home unformatted but mounted as /home.

Make more sense?

I prefer to do a clean install keeping my home directory, but I am
considering the upgrade method.
As for a clean install, although I have a good backup method, it will
still take effort :)

Thanks,
~Stephen

On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 11:27 AM, danyJ <danyj028 at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Feb 2012 09:02:34 +1100
> Stephen Rees-Carter <stephen at rees-carter.net> wrote:
>
> Hi Stephen,
>
> Not sure what you mean by installing "over the top of 11.10"? I'd say its best to do a proper upgrade,
> or ask it to reformat everything and wipe off 11.10. (you would have saved your data files?)
>
> If you are already running 11.10 and want to *test* 12.04, I'd suggest you run in a Virtual environment:
> VirtualBox or KVM.  It does mean though that you will be stuck no 2D environment. (although VirtualBox may
> allow the 3D environment, if u want to try out full Unity 5.2, but its very slow).
>
> Daniel.
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Is anyone testing 12.04 and having issues with the installer?
>> I'm trying to install over the top of an 11.10 install and I keep
>> getting the installer hanging at: "Removing conflicting operating
>> system files".
>>
>> I think it is occurring because I am asking the partitioner to install
>> over the / (root) partition while leaving the /home partition, but I
>> can't confirm as yet.
>> I'm testing at the moment, but it's going to take some time to get it to work.
>>
>> I have a bug report at:
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/924660
>>
>> Thanks,
>> ~Stephen
>>
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