As far as I know, the installer still behaves this way and no one has yet to update it in the mentioned way. Maybe we should draft a spec to close the bug?
For example, a spec that said: "Installer shouldn't do anything to the system until the install step" -- Installer creates /target/etc/fstab at wrong time https://launchpad.net/bugs/10556 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
