I attempted to install Ubuntu Budgie 18.04 Beta-1 recently from a live CD and have just attempted to install the Beta-2 on my 64bit desktop. Both gave me scary error messages which caused me to quit. I have never had these messages with any of the many versions of Ubuntu (including Ubuntu Budgie) that I have installed in the past.
“Failure to create swap partition” (or words to that effect)
“Failure to resize partition X” (or words to that effect) I didn’t ask to resize anything. I have a backup but that's a very worrying message all the same.
I have three disks (2 SATA, 2 PATA), I ignore the PATA and one of the SATA disks during installation and mount them later. The SATA disk I install to has 3 partitions, “/”, “swap” and “/HOME”. I had only got as far as stating that “/” should be used as Ext4, as “/” and should be formatted when the errors happened.
I had no such problem on the single disk default configuration on my laptop.
I can't install the official 18.04 release. The installer takes 5-10 minutes to progress from the initial questions (minimal/normal installation) and the disk is very active. After entering the partition details the installation process starts, but it fails with a disk error message. On a second attempt at installation, the partition stage shows no partitions.
I don't believe there is anything wrong with my disk as the regular OS check on the disk is fine and SMART shows that the disk is fine. I have also since installed Ubuntu MATE 15.10, then Ubuntu Budgie 16.04 without any problems.
If there is a disk problem, the installer is no help as it complains about it without any indication of what it might be. That leads me to suspect that it is a failure of the installer.
This installer makes Ubuntu Budgie 18.04 unusable for me.