I wanted to add some info now that I have the installer launched and in front of me allowing me to backtrack the steps I took while doing a fresh install that wiped my "/home" partition ~+~+~+~+~+~ after selecting the "something else" option on the Installation Type screen and clicking continue I was brought to the /dev/sdx visual display of my partitions
I had three ext3 parts: /dev/sda1 or "/" /dev/sda5 or "/home" and /dev/sda6 or swap next to each is a tick box labeled "Format?" I ticked ONLY the /dev/sda1 box so I would install a fresh system onto a clean/wiped partition then selected /dev/sda1 for boot loader installation clicked on "Install Now" the expected behavior would be to install Mint on this partition and format this partition ONLY and if this box were *not* ticked to simply install MInt/Ubuntu to this partition and leave all others partitions untouched -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1265192 Title: Install/reinstall wipes out all/other partitions To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1265192/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
