Comment 21 for bug 766265

A new slant to this which may require either renaming this bug or filing a new one. This was from a Oneiric Alpha 3 iso-tesing image (20110803-i386).

I began with a one drive setup with Win XP on sda1 and Lubuntu Oneiric on sda3 with sda2 as SWAP, all primary partitions so I can easily test free space options and also delete any logical/extended partitions created during testing and replace them with another primary partition so I can perform the "Wubi if 4 primaries exist" option.

This is what parted showed before beginning:

Model: ATA WDC WD1600AAJB-0 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 160GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos

Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
 1 32.3kB 43.1GB 43.1GB primary ntfs boot
 3 136GB 158GB 22.0GB primary ext4
 2 158GB 160GB 2338MB primary linux-swap(v1)

But when I tried to install there was no option whatsoever to install to the existing free space, please see the attached screenshot.

I personally think renaming this bug makes more sense than creating a new one because it all amounts to how we should offer the use of existing free space.