[Bug 1394091] [NEW] Partitioning experience in installer SUCKS

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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.

** Affects: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: bot-comment install
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Partitioning experience in installer SUCKS
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1394091
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