Disk deleted after undoing "Use Entire Disk"

[Luca Ferretti]

Binary package hint: ubiquity

I was playing with new installer in a virtual machine (virtualbox) in order to have screenshot to use in new edition of a book about maverick. The virtual machine had a MS Windows on it, in order to have some explanatory figure about partition resizing.

Following the next steps, Windows was erased and Ubuntu was installed instead.
 1- choose "Install them side by side" --> preview shows [ Win | Ubuntu ]
 2- choose "Use Entire Disk" --> preview shows [ Ubuntu ]
 3- choose "Split Largest Partition" --> preview shows [ Win | Ubuntu ]

As I said, I was playing with new UI, but after step 3, due to the displayed preview, I was sure to preserve Windows proceeding to install. Fortunately it was a snapshotted virtual machine :) I'll provide parman log in the next days, by now I've restored previous vm status.

PS IMHO could be really really good provide more info about "Use Entire Partition/Disk" and "Split Largest Partition", ideally tooltips. Moreover could be really appreciated some documentation on ubuntu wiki, about the exact behavior of new installer.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: ubiquity 2.3.17
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-20.29-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-20-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Sep 10 16:06:29 2010
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Alpha i386 (20100910)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubiquity

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