I'm currently trying to install the UCC 3.0 desktop image on a virtual machine (VMware). The VM boots via network and loads the initrd just fine. However, the initrd choses /dev/fd0 as the device to partition.

Unpacking the initrd and looking at scripts/ucc I don't see any provision for skipping floppy devices or removable devices (there's one "if" dealing with removables, but that is only entered if "$device_blacklist" is set, which "grep -r device_blacklist /path/to/extracted/initrd" never to be the case).

Looking at the output of "cat /proc/partitions" in a debug shell started from the UCC initrd I can see:

1. A lot of ram disk partitions
2. The fd0 partition
3. The sda partition

This happens even if I remove the floppy device from the virtual machine configuration.

Of course this is an edge case (installing the desktop in a virtual machine). However, I'm pretty sure that a floppy device can never the right target.

I've circumvented this by adding the following lines to the "search_device" function and rebuilding the initrd:

		if echo "${device}" | grep -sq ^"fd[0-9]" ; then
			# Skipping floppy devices
			continue
		fi

This is just copy-pasted and adjusted from the device mapper case.