** Description changed: Binary package hint: ubiquity I just had the Ubuntu Natty installer completly wipe out my Windows install. I chose the option to "Erase Natty and install 11.04". It gave no - confirmation of exactly what partitions it was going to act on. I + confirmation of exactly what it was going to do to the partitions. I clicked okay to erase Natty, and it wiped out the whole drive. - Thankfully, this is a secondary system, so all I've lost is the time I - spent setting up Windows 7. + (Thankfully, this is a secondary system, so all I've lost is the time I + spent setting up Windows 7.) - I believe I had a partial Natty installation that had failed during - install (liveusb squashfs errors), so I was thinking it would erase just - that -- but nope, apparently Windows 7 is "Windows Natty". + I believe I had a partial Natty installation (installation failed even + before grub, due to LiveUSB squashfs errors), so I was thinking it would + erase just that -- but nope, apparently Windows 7 is "Windows Natty". Oddly enough, there was another entry for "Upgrade Natty to 11.04"; now I'm wondering whether it was going to upgrade that broken install, or somehow try to upgrade Windows. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04 Package: ubiquity (not installed) ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-5.32-generic 2.6.38-rc6 Uname: Linux 2.6.38-5-generic i686 Architecture: i386 Date: Sat Mar 19 11:36:21 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha i386 (20110302) ProcEnviron: - LANGUAGE=en_US:en - PATH=(custom, no user) - LANG=en_US.UTF-8 - SHELL=/bin/bash + LANGUAGE=en_US:en + PATH=(custom, no user) + LANG=en_US.UTF-8 + SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: ubiquity UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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