Comment 12 for bug 655950

I agree entirely. The 10.04 (and previous) installer had to be changed
because it wouldn't recognise some modern partition types, but apart
from that, there was nothing wrong with its layout. This new one is
ridiculous in my view and should be put in the bin.
It is going to make sure that people stay away from Linux instead of
embrace it!
On Mon, 2010-11-22 at 15:39 +0000, Jehiva wrote:
> This screwed me over, I really wish I would have looked it up prior to
> using the option.
>
> I had three partitions all set and ready to go. One was my existing NTFS
> partition with Windows 7 on it.
>
> Another was my Ubuntu 10.10 32 bit partition.
>
> Lastly I had a third partition formatted as ext4, I had that partition
> selected and chose to Use Entire Partition.
>
> The damn installer took the entire hard drive for the new Ubuntu 10.10
> 64 bit install.
>
> Claiming that what I wanted to do was split partitions or something is
> ridiculous, I had 3 distinct partitions - each formatted completely
> different (NTFS, ext3, ext4) and the thing used the entire disk.
>
> If I had wanted to use the entire disk, I would have chose that option.
>
> VERY misleading and aggravating. The 10.04 installer worked perfect to
> allow me to dual boot Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.04 while the 10.10
> installer just screwed me over and erased all my data.
>