Hi, Given the fact that users can encrypt their home partitions this bug gets another degree of difficulty. Here is the scenario I ran into when trying to install 10.4 on top of the existing version.
I have an encrypted home partition that I did NOT want to delete while installing 10.4 on the system. I selected "manual" mode for partitioning, created new partitions and left my home partition alone ensuring that "format" check box was empty. After the install was completed w/o errors the system rebooted as expected but it could not come back up. I believe this was because I specified a new password during the installation. Therefore, my home directory could not be encrypted and I believe that it could not be written to as well. Of course this was a user mistake and I ended up installing from scratch again this time I dedicated all partition matters to the installer. I suggest making the installer smart -- identify existing home partitions and ask users if these partitions are encrypted. If so, force users to enter old passwords. -- ability to use existing partitions to install Ubuntu https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/164326 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
