I agree with Stanley that the solution needs to be mentioned at a prominent place.
I suspect that the crucial point got lost in this long discussion: While updates may work, any fresh installation of Xubuntu from the current CD fails _always_! Imagine a user new to Linux, who decides to give Xubuntu a try. He puts in the CD, boots up, clicks on "install", does not have any special wishes and hence always tells the installer to use the default option. The installer will notice that there is free space on the hardd disk and suggest to put an ext3 partition there, to which the user happily agrees. The installation then aborts abruptly with a completely unhelpful and misleading error message. Our new user is be disappointed that a straight-forward vanilla install on a completely ordinary PC fails. Being new to Ubuntu he does not know about Community Support and simply reasons that this Xubuntu thingy is a conpletely broken, badly maintained thing. Ubuntu strives to be "Linux for the people", a distribution that simply works and does not require any guru-style fiddling ot tweaking. A bug like this: in the _installer_, striking _always_, making installation _impossible_ without tricks, must be corrected immediatly. Hence, I sincerely ask you to apply the patch directly to the the ISO images for Xubuntu Feisty. I realize that replacing the ISO images is a major trouble but it seems necessary. The next best solution would be to put a link to an easily comprehensible explanation of the work-around right next to the download link for the ISO image. Cheers Simon O -- Xubuntu partitioning can fail because ubiquity does not prevent thunar from automounting new partitions https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/107259 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
