handyfloss » install http://handyfloss.net Because FLOSS is handy, isn't it? Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:04:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 Ubuntu error: the installer needs to remove operating system files http://handyfloss.net/2009.06/ubuntu-error-the-installer-needs-to-remove-operating-system-files/ http://handyfloss.net/2009.06/ubuntu-error-the-installer-needs-to-remove-operating-system-files/#comments Thu, 18 Jun 2009 07:54:38 +0000 isilanes http://handyfloss.net/?p=783 I started installing Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.04 in my ASUS Eee PC, and after the partitioning step, I stumbled upon the following error:

The installer needs to remove operating system files from the install target, but was unable to do so. The install cannot continue

I was installing Ubuntu on top of a previous eeebuntu install, smashing the / partition, while reusing the /home. After minimal googling, I found this bug report at Launchpad, with the same problem (and one year old).

As it turns out, the problem was not with the root partition, as I assumed from the error message, but with the home one. Apparently, Ubuntu didn’t like the idea that my home partition was JFS (maybe it couldn’t mount it, because jfs_utils are not loaded by default). The solution: install the OS ignoring (not using) the home partition, and mount it afterwards.

Shame on you, Ubuntu, this solution is lame!

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