I didn't meant to lay rules about this tag, I presumed there will not be problems and the only one would be software-installation... apparently I was wrong.
When I envisioned the system-installation tag, my thinking was that users interested in questions about "installing Ubuntu" would follow the tag and questions about the same topic would use it. This was reflected when I wrote my petition to separate the infamous installation in two tags:
- system-installation: For installations of Ubuntu. Remember that Ubiquity is the graphical installer of Ubuntu and questions about it should use also the ubiquity. This tag should be used for problems with the installation process itself and the use of the installer. Post/pre installations problems, ie. boot, dual-boot, partitioning schemes, have their own tags. The questions that fit from installation, i.e. about installing Ubuntu itself.
Now, what happened instead? A bunch of questions where the final goal is not about "installing Ubuntu" predates the tag instead:
- Lost windows xp data by installing 12.04, can I recover it? data-recovery
- How do I recover my accidentally lost Windows partitions after installing Ubuntu? data-recovery
- Boot failure : No DEFAULT or UI configuration directive found! boot
- What do I have to do before giving away my Ubuntu machine? (this I wonder why the installation tag in first place) I'm temporally saying that "security" should be used, be my guess if you find something more useful.
Most of these questions is about problems post-installation. Things that happened after installing Ubuntu. Experts about installing Ubuntu may not know the answer to those questions, I mean, Ubuntu is already installed, what can an expert about doing what is already done tell you? What you did wrong? But isn't more useful how can I revert back?
These questions are of little interest to people that would potentially follow the tag and answer those questions.
So, I've said what should be not tagged with this, but what should?
- Install Ubuntu touch on Nexus? system-installation ubuntu-touch
- How I tell ubiquity that I want a LVM partition? system-installation ubiquity and maybe lvm if the question sways to LVM more than anything
- USB drive install of Ubuntu 12.04 Server fails - can't find components from CD-ROM system-installation and perhaps debian-installer
- Installing Ubuntu in a LXC container? lxc system-installation (lxc takes precedence here)
As you can notice, the final goal is "installing Ubuntu" or problems found "while installing Ubuntu". Now there are some that are pre-installation that may use the tag but those are weird like "Should I leave an no assigned space before installing Ubuntu?" which the question is "should I do X before installing Ubuntu".
I hope this clears up some misunderstandings about the tag. If you have any edge case or doubt please ask, but as general rule "is about installing Ubuntu, us the tag" is pretty solid already.
Once this is agreed I would write an excerpt and tag wiki to reflect this.
