[Bug 1394091] Re: Partitioning experience in installer SUCKS

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*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 44609 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/44609

When I tried dropping into a shell at various points during the install,
those commands did not work at any point. I imagine it has to be in
there _SOMEWHERE_ so as to allow actual partitioning, but I wouldn't be
surprised if they're only loaded into memory after the last point where
it's possible to drop into a shell before the partitioning phase of the
setup, and before the partitioning phase. I found this to be the case
after burning both the 14.04 LTS and 14.04.1 LTS discs.

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Title:
  Partitioning experience in installer SUCKS

Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Hi,

  I am trying to install Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS x64 from a freshly burned CD
  that passed verification.

  I am getting to the part where the partitioner is supposed to let me
  configure things, and I wanted to blow away an existing raid+lvm setup
  on the drives and install a new system. It would not let me directly,
  so I had to do all sorts of convoluted things that I can't for the
  life of me remember, including telling it to install ontop of one of
  the existing partitions. Now the installer refuses to recongize that
  drive entirely (must be some sort of "safety" feature), and now that
  I've managed to wipe the other drives (or so it seems), it will NOT
  let me create an actual RAID array on my RAID partitions, yet it gives
  me no error.

  I imagine that if I could just wipe all partitions completely off all
  drives, I wouldn't be running into these glitches, but SOME IDIOT
  decided that it would be too much to ask to include fdisk in the
  livecd, so I cannot drop into a shell, wipe the drives, then proceed
  with the partitioning like normal and bypass all this craziness.

  So I've wasted two hours repeatedly rebooting and trying to find a way
  to get this stupid thing to let me do what I have done at least a
  dozen times before on blank drives with few issues. I figured "no,
  these guys can't possibly lack such foresight, there's GOT to be a
  way", but alas I would have been better off to burn a Knoppix disk,
  wipes the drives, THEN book into the installer.

  PLEASE do something about this situation! I don't know if it means
  including fdisk in the shell, adding some sort of "wipe all
  partitions" option that comes before the partitioner, upgrading the
  partitioner, or maybe all of the above, but something, anything, would
  be better than leaving it the way it is.

  I'm going to try and find two things I can afford to replace, and
  throw one of them against the other as hard as I can.

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