Problem installing 19.10

[Colin Law]

On Mon, 21 Oct 2019 at 17:49, Ian Bruntlett <ian.bruntlett at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 21 Oct 2019 at 15:15, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> It was a freshly formatted partition and I also tried telling the
>> installer to format it.  However Ian's suggestion of deleting the
>> partition and letting the installer format it from empty space seemed
>> worth trying and it worked, and the rest of the install went without a
>> hitch.  Not sure how I go about submitting a bug on this.
>
>
> Not sure about this but... I believe the part of the installer that deals with partitions does not indicate on its main screen whether or not a partition will be formatted or not. If that is the case, I feel that having that information available would be very useful.

In the Something Else option it shows the existing partitions and to
use one you double click it and it brings up a popup that allows you
to specify the type (ext4 etc), the mount point and there is a
checkbox to tell it to format the partition.  If it is an existing
Ubuntu partition and you say not to format it then it will leave /home
(and a couple of other dirs I think) as they are so user data and
config is not overwritten.  That is not what I was trying to do
though.

Colin

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> Ian
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