** Description changed: This is not so much a bug as a design fault but a fairly annoying one and one that was present for 11.04 and now 11.10 as well. - The problem is simple...the first step of the installer selects language. All good and well. I choose English. + The problem is simple...the first step of the install is to select language. All good and well. I choose English. But then the installer stupidly assumes you are using a standard US English keyboard. I am not. I am using a Spanish keyboard because my laptop was not bought in the US. - The big problem is when you then go to manually partition your hard - drive. You can't enter "/" unless you copy paste it or can remember - which key it is on a US keyboard. + The problem is when you then go to manually partition your hard drive. + You can't enter "/" unless you copy paste it or can remember which key + it is on a US keyboard. Then to rub salt in the wound the page letting you select keyboard is at the end of the installer. I don't know who designed the order of the pages but they need to learn that keyboard selection needs to follow language. - ProblemType: Bug - DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 + ProblemType: BugDistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: ubiquity (not installed) ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3 Architecture: i386 Date: Sat Oct 15 00:39:26 2011 - EcryptfsInUse: Yes - InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012) + EcryptfsInUse: YesInstallationMedia: Xubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012) ProcEnviron: - LANGUAGE=en_NZ:en - PATH=(custom, no user) - LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8 - SHELL=/bin/bash - SourcePackage: ubiquity + LANGUAGE=en_NZ:en + PATH=(custom, no user) + LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8 + SHELL=/bin/bashSourcePackage: ubiquity UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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