Seeing Colin assigned to this bug just made my holiday brighter ;^) In order to save him time I thought I'd provide somewhat of a review, particularly since my test results at bug 682429 are lengthy and often repetitious. This appears to always be reproducible if only primary partitions exist on the disc, it can be either 2 or 3 primary partitions which is a common layout for existing Windows installations. So I'd concluded that if an extended partition existed this would not happen but Paul Stimpson's info seems to prove that assumption false.
That brings us to bug 655950 which I think is at the root of the problem. Please take time to read this: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/682429/comments/27 We've offered potentially destructive options that add no actual "value" to the procedure. As I've stated previously the "Install alongside" option has a specific target group, that being Windows users for the most part, and they don't understand Linux device designations, please look at posts 1, 2 and 8 here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1647379 They not only don't get it, often they almost refuse to get it :^/ Of course immediately there is only one thing we can do for Maverick and that's add something appropriate to the Maverick release notes. Then we can work on correcting things for Natty. I look forward to working with you on this. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/659106 Title: Maverick installer lost Windows partitions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
