Public bug reported:
Having installed Intrepid once on my machine (and subsequently upgraded
to Jaunty alpha), I tried to install Intrepid again, repartitioning to
make room for a second installation.
The intrepid live CD installer cannot cope with this however.
When I boot, there is a lot of disk activity, which takes a long time,
and when the ubuntu desktop appears, it tells me that a device with
packages has been found, and asks me if I want to start the package
manager (this is very confusing for starters). I'm guessing it has
scanned my hard disk and found packages (as you'd expect).
Then, when running the installer, on step 4, which should display the
partitions, there is just an empty list.
I'm guessing the problem is due to some automounting quirk:
On the desktop, there is a CD icon. However, in /etc/mtab, the device
mounted at /cdrom is /dev/sda1 i.e. my hard drive. Browsing it confirms
that it is indeed my hard drive.
Umounting this device fails -- it says "device or resource busy", and I
cannot force it any way I try, even though it does not seem that any
program is using it.
I've tried the repartitioning tool, but this also shows /dev/sda1
mounted at /cdrom, and fails to unmount it.
I've also tried this from a ubuntu Intrepid installation on a USB stick,
and got the same thing. The only thing extra is that when booting, it
doesn't use the graphical boot screen, so I see lots of messages,
including one about apt-cdrom segfaulting, which is not encouraging.
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Intrepid live CD installer fails on existing installation
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/333584
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