Anyone having issues installing 12.04?

[Paul Gear]

On 03/02/12 11:34, Stephen Rees-Carter wrote:
> 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 :)
> ...
>
> On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 11:27 AM, danyJ <danyj028 at yahoo.com.au> 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?)

The method you're using makes perfect sense, Stephen, and should work.
My suggestion is to install just to / and don't tell it about /home
until after you've installed (i.e. edit /etc/fstab when you're done).

I would question Daniel's assertion that "its [sic] best to do a proper
upgrade".  Debian and all derivatives are designed to upgrade smoothly,
and Ubuntu has an excellent track record on this.  Saying that a clean
install is better nowadays is borderline FUD.

Paul

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