As a reaction to the previous 2 comments (#13 and #14), and as I have been personally frustrated myself with this error related to *buntu's installer unable to reuse an existing JFS /home partition, here's my hint on what it *should* usually do the trick when this happens.
1. Boot the LiveCD of your preferred flavor of *buntu/Mint, or any other LiveCD who has jfsutils -- you'll need either "fsck.jfs" or "jfs_fsck" (it's the same thing). 2. Make sure the JFS partition is *not* mounted. 3. Run whatever of the following two works -- assuming /dev/sda3 is the JFS home partition: jfs_fsck /dev/sda3 or: fsck.jfs /dev/sda3 4. Now try to mount the partition -- make sure the mounting point exist or replace it accordingly: mount -t jfs /dev/sda3 /mnt/sda3 If you can cd to the mounted partition and the contents is fine, Ubuquity should be able to install and make use of it (you can umount it back). -- The installer needs to remove operating system files from the install target, but was unable to do so. The install cannot continue https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/186711 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
