[BETA] v0.1.5-pre-release-20161216

[agent_kith]

Install of the 64 bit iso went well and everything works as expected. Nothing out of the ordinary noted yet.

Is your computer in UFI mode or legacy BIOS?

One behaviour of the installer is odd (and is the same in previous releases) in that when the partitioning window appears it automatically populates Snakeoil as the sole OS overwriting everything else on the hard disk. This is not the standard Ubiquity method which gives various options when other os' and partitions are found. ie Replace,alongside, or 'something else' that takes you to the manual partitioning window.

I notice that too. I wonder if it's because of the settings I've made to the ubiquity script. Something I hope to change soon. Another issue is the + and - icons are missing.

Eventually the plan is to drop ubiquity and go with my custom installer (how hard could it be? ). Several advantages to drop ubiquity: 

1. Reduce the file size of the ISO
   
2. Streamline the whole user experience as you can install the OS direct from the web-app, or continue to use it in USB persistent mode 
   

Unfortunately time is not really on my side.
 

For those unused to the Ubuntu installer it may mean that where they expect the default to be 'alongside' they end up with 'replace'.

Yeah, I have read reports of that. Try as I might, I just can't recreate what they have done. I have tested installing Snakeoil as a secondary OS before and I still don't exactly get how they did it . Being more experienced in Linux unfortunately made me blind to some of the mistakes the less experienced users can make.

I wonder if UFI works for multi-boot OS.

(yes, I know there are warnings... but I have seen someone post on the forums that their drive was overwritten    )
Perhaps in the installation notes in the handbook you could point out that for a dual boot install with one or more existing os' they have to hit the 'revert' button on the partitioning window to bring up the existing partitioning layout for editing.

Great idea. I'd update the manual.