I've hit this twice now. I dual boot Windows and shrunk my boot partition from inside it as I tend to trust MS tools manipulating their own partitions better. Both times I came into Ubuntu's installer and it acted as if there was no free space on the drive and that it had to shrink the existing boot partition.
Working around this issue was annoying also because only after manually creating my partitions do I see a message about needing a swap partition. Then another round of delete and recreate... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/637718 Title: No option to install to unformated space in simple partisioning -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs