Colin, I don't remember being warned that the installation was being made to an unclean target. I recognise that it was stupid (tired) thing to do and I believe I have enough experience that I would not have just ignored such a warning. Would the warning time out ? I may well have left the installation to get on it while I did something else.
I may not have kicked off the installation the way I should and perhaps some warning messages appeared on a different virtual console ? I tried the first menu option, which I think is the vanilla install, not the CLI install. That however loaded a video driver that did not work. So I found a way to the boot line and I think I entered: install vga=771 noacpi. As a general rule, I make /home a separate partition and would expect to keep its contents from one installation to the next but I would expect to clean all other Linux partitions. I back up files in /etc I change by hand and would use my backups as 'inspiration only' after a new installation. I noticed at the time that I hadn't been asked for a user id but then I couldn't remember when in the process I had been asked previously so I just let the install carry on in the hope that it was still going to ask me. I seen several posts from complete newbies who managed somehow to get through the install without being asked for a user id and they did not understand which user id the KDE login wanted. They just got laughed at. There are loopholes and my time well spent if I can help close one. Colin Watson wrote: > base-installer already warns you as follows: > > Proceed with installation to unclean target? > > The target file system contains files from a past installation. These files > could cause problems with the installation process, and if you proceed, > some of the existing files may be overwritten. > > You are encountering some of these problems. Would further warnings have > made any difference? > > -- Paul Bryan Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] +44 023 8028 2208 -- Gutsy Install Does Not Ask for User Id https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/178494 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
