Installer Crash - at disk partition stage

[kellberto]

Installer crashed after selection to erase drive. Drive has prior UStudio installed alongside defunct version of Windows 98. Hardware is an old, tired, HP Pavilion. First attempt was with default; probably would have worked, but I went back one step, changed to "format drive" option, that failed with error "no root directory specified", stepped back, selected "erase" option, and then failure message appeared and installer went to bu report...

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.04
Package: ubiquity 17.04.9
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.10.0-19.21-lowlatency 4.10.8
Uname: Linux 4.10.0-19-lowlatency i686
ApportVersion: 2.20.4-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
CasperVersion: 1.380
Date: Tue May 30 07:08:58 2017
InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntustudio.seed boot=casper only-ubiquity initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash ---
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu-Studio 17.04 "Zesty Zapus" - Release i386 (20170412)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 LC_NUMERIC=C.UTF-8
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[dino99 (9d9)]

That version is now dead
http://news.softpedia.com/news/ubuntu-17-04-zesty-zapus-has-reached-end-of-life-upgrade-to-ubuntu-17-10-now-519360.shtml