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What can I say? Terrible terrible terrible...
Instead of upgrading this, my 3rd maverick machine, from lucid, I decide to do a clean wipe. I install Windows 7 from usb, giving it a smallish 50GB partition, leaving ~450GB free. Very straightforward. Then, I boot up the livecd off usb, choose install alongside, and what the hell? It's trying to split up the existing 50GB NTFS partition into two smaller ones. No option in sight to use the available 450GB that I specifically set aside for Ubuntu. Duh!
Thanks for forcing me into using the manual partitioner. I'm a huge proponent of Ubuntu, but this deserves the harshest possible criticism. No need to have a humble opinion on this one. I've said it before and I'll say it again: see bug #1.
Note that this was serious problem 3 out of 3 that I encountered while doing what should have been a straightforward install on a very vanilla system. No sane user would have bothered.