Unable to erase HDD and install 18.04

[Jay Falcon]

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ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: ubiquity 18.04.14.12
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.0.0-23.24~18.04.1-generic 5.0.15
Uname: Linux 5.0.0-23-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.7
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.394
Date: Tue Aug 27 13:24:55 2019
InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd quiet splash --- maybe-ubiquity
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20190805)
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

Exception during installation:
Aug 27 17:24:41 ubuntu /plugininstall.py: Traceback (most recent call last):
Aug 27 17:24:41 ubuntu /plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 1725, in <module>
Aug 27 17:24:41 ubuntu /plugininstall.py: install.run()
Aug 27 17:24:41 ubuntu /plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 61, in wrapper
Aug 27 17:24:41 ubuntu /plugininstall.py: func(self)
Aug 27 17:24:41 ubuntu /plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 178, in run
Aug 27 17:24:41 ubuntu /plugininstall.py: self.configure_python()
Aug 27 17:24:41 ubuntu /plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 323, in configure_python
Aug 27 17:24:41 ubuntu /plugininstall.py: cache = Cache()
Aug 27 17:24:41 ubuntu /plugininstall.py: File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apt/cache.py", line 164, in __init__
Aug 27 17:24:41 ubuntu /plugininstall.py: self.open(progress)
Aug 27 17:24:41 ubuntu /plugininstall.py: File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apt/cache.py", line 219, in open
Aug 27 17:24:41 ubuntu /plugininstall.py: self._cache = apt_pkg.Cache(progress)
Aug 27 17:24:41 ubuntu /plugininstall.py: apt_pkg.Error: E:flAbsPath on /target/var/lib/dpkg/status failed - realpath (2: No such file or directory), E:Could not open file - open (2: No such file or directory), E:Problem opening , E:The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
Aug 27 17:24:41 ubuntu /plugininstall.py: