Misleading option in Ubuntu 10.10

[ksprasad]

Hi,

I lost my entire windows partition due to a misleading option in ubuntu 10.10 installation.

There is an option to install ubuntu side by side. Once that option is selected it should never use entire disk for installation. But that is not the fact.

After selecting that option, it will display the largest partition available on disk. We can drag the pointer to select the appropriate size for ubuntu from that partition. But below, there is another option 'Select entire partition'.

So 'Select entire partition' should select only that single partition showed above. It should not use entire disk. But it used entire disk (In my case). Isn't it wrong?

Regards,
ksprasad

[kansasnoob]

Hi,

I lost my entire windows partition due to a misleading option in ubuntu 10.10 installation.

There is an option to install ubuntu side by side. Once that option is selected it should never use entire disk for installation. But that is not the fact.

After selecting that option, it will display the largest partition available on disk. We can drag the pointer to select the appropriate size for ubuntu from that partition. But below, there is another option 'Select entire partition'.

So 'Select entire partition' should select only that single partition showed above. It should not use entire disk. But it used entire disk (In my case). Isn't it wrong?

Regards,
ksprasad

Yes! I first complained about that just prior to 10.10 being released:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/655950

Followed up later on after that earned a "won't fix":

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/682429

And later found that was a duplicate of this one:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-release-notes/+bug/659106

Besides filing and following up on bug reports I've even tried addressing the issue at the ubuntu-installer team and ayatana to no avail :(

I even started a thread here about that:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1622388

Your comments at Launchpad would be welcome!

[ksprasad]

Thanks for the info.
Hope the issue will be resolved in the next release, Ubuntu 11.04

Regards,
ksprasad