Installer cannot remove files

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Mon Mar 15 16:42:41 UTC 2010


On 03/15/2010 01:05 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On a recent Ubuntu 9.10 32 bit install, the installer would not format
> the / partition (sda2). There was a previous Ubuntu install in there,
> on a JFS partition. I tried formatting that partition to JFS, ext3,
> and ext4, but every time the installer would complain that it could
> not remove the files from that partition.
> 
> In the end I installed Fedora on that partition as an ext3 partition,
> then installed Ubuntu there as JFS. Why could the Fedora installer
> format the partiton, but not the Ubuntu installer? Has anyone every
> encountered this? Do I have enough info to file a bug?
> 
> Thanks.
> 

This would be the place to start/file a bug:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity
Try searching on 'lucid', 'jfs, etc.







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