ubuntu-22.04 Installer won't let me delete partition?

[Volker Wysk]

Am Mittwoch, dem 26.04.2023 um 17:26 +0200 schrieb Josef Wolf:
> On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 02:26:53PM +0200, Volker Wysk wrote:
> > Am Mittwoch, dem 26.04.2023 um 14:12 +0200 schrieb Josef Wolf:
> > > I guess, you are talking about "Custom storage layout"
> > > 
> > > I really don't see how to create encrypted partitions without lvm...
> > 
> > I've looked. It's the fifth screen, which is titled "Installation type".
> > There you have the choices "Erase disk and install Ubuntu" and "Something
> > else". Possibly, there are more choices for you.
> 
> OK, you are about the desktop image, 

Yes.

> while I am about the server image
> ubuntu-22.04.2-live-server-amd64.iso
> 
> But on the desktop installer, I also can't find how to delete a partition (to
> repartition).

Hmmm... I can't remember having trouble to repartition the discs with the
22.04 installer (desktop version).

> So I have to
>  1. download desktop image
>  2. boot desktop live system
>  3. enter all the gory details for language/keyboard/network
>  4. use gparted to re-partition
>  5. learn that gparted is not able to create encrypted partitions

You don't do that with gparted. This is to be done with the installer (for
the desktop version, at least). You only create the partition which is to be
used for encryption, and make it an encrypted partition with the installer.

>  6. boot desktop install system
>  7. enter all the gory details for language/keyboard/network again
>  8. recreate partition to mark them to be encrypted
>  9. start install (so that encryption is actually created)
> 10. abort install
> 11. boot server image to do the real install
> 12. enter all the gory details for language/keyboard/network again
> 
> Is this the workflow that the creators of the new installer had in mind?
> 
> In find this quite ridiculous...

It is!


Cheers,
Volker
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