Used custom partition, took me back to main page, clicked Install with Vista, crashed

[Christopher Brech]

I don't know how to collect any of the information the guidelines is asking for when the only access I have is to the FireFox browser that opened up. I only see a background and weird rectangular window that isn't updating properly. So here's what I did:

Downloaded Lubuntu-18.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso using magnet torrent from Ubuntu website. Used Rufus 3.1 (on a Windows 7 Pro machine) to load ISO on to 4GB Lacie flash drive (Rufus claimed to download two libraries for sys-something-er-other).

I got through to the Install with Vista, Delete Everything, or Custom/Other options. I clicked install with vista first, but didn't understand the mumbo jumbo it told me. So I tried custom. Looked similar to Windows Disk/Partition Manager so I selected the space I unallocated (about 7 GiBs) and chose the default format option (whatever that was, never heard of it, again: Windows user, sorry).

It again took me BACK to the previous screen. Confused, I said screw it and clicked OK through the Install with Vista option because that's the obvious thing to do at that point. And then it crashed.

I am clueless why it crashed, because everything seems to be working fine on this installer. Very impressive really! Full native resolution, Wireless works great, keyboard and mouse work, if only Windows installers were this nice.

I'll try the installer again, an installer this nice, it must be my fault.

Laptop:
Acer Aspire 4530
Shipped with Windows Vista Home Premium
250 GB HDD (Originally 3 visible partitions including restore partition. 4th partition reallocated from 3rd partition)
2GB DDR2-667 Dual-Channel
nVidia GeForce 9100M (256MB)
Super-Multi Drive (seems to be on the fritz though)
802.11 b/g/n, No Bluetooth

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: ubiquity 18.04.14.6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-29.31-generic 4.15.18
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-29-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.2
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.394
Date: Thu Aug 2 03:18:56 2018
InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/lubuntu.seed boot=casper only-ubiquity initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash ---
LiveMediaBuild: Lubuntu 18.04.1 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180725)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
 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)