Comment 14 for bug 1750645

I just find it incredible that even despite this bug being open, there was this official announcement late last year that the d-i installer will be completely phased out in favor of 'subiquity' starting with the focal release.

I have been using d-i based mini.iso for my VPS setups that involve pre-existing luks-encrypted partition hosting lvm volumes. Upon realizing d-i would not be an option anymore, I decided to give subiquity a try using focal daily builds (pre-beta). Not only did it fail miserably, it's probably the worst thing that I've ever seen and I've been involved with linux for more than 20 years now. I just can't imagine someone would include this the installer in a production LTS release, let alone dropping support for the tried-and-tested d-i installer.

Fortunately, it seems common sense prevailed and when the focal beta was released earlier this month, I found the traditional d-i images (along with netboot & mini.iso) in addition to the useless live-server image. It's sad that eventually subiquity would be the only option available, I just hope that it is half as functional as the d-i installer when that happens.

At least I'm good for now as far as the Focal release is concerned.