I just experienced this with Natty trying to create an Oneiric installer on a USB stick. To my technical eye "erase disk" means "erase this partition", i.e. the partition that it's presented to me, in my case /dev/sdd1. I did not expect it to erase /dev/sdd!
I just experienced this with Natty trying to create an Oneiric installer on a USB stick. To my technical eye "erase disk" means "erase this partition", i.e. the partition that it's presented to me, in my case /dev/sdd1. I did not expect it to erase /dev/sdd!