If you'd rather partition yourself outside of the installer, then your only option is to copy the contents of /rofs to your new root partition yourself or use the alternate CD installer. I do not believe there is a large enough use case to warrant adding a potentially confusing option to the UI to skip partitioning completely.
Regarding your bug, do you have a serial cable available? I suspect this is a kernel bug and thus will need the log you capture over a serial console up to the point where it freezes. Thanks! ** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- Freeze at 5% "Creating ext3 file system" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/224431 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs