I just find it incredible that even despite this bug being open, there
was this official announcement late last year that the d-i installer
will be completely phased out in favor of 'subiquity' starting with the
focal release.

I have been using d-i based mini.iso for my VPS setups that involve pre-
existing luks-encrypted partition hosting lvm volumes. Upon realizing
d-i would not be an option anymore, I decided to give subiquity a try
using focal daily builds (pre-beta). Not only did it fail miserably,
it's probably the worst thing that I've ever seen and I've been involved
with linux for more than 20 years now. I just can't imagine someone
would include this the installer in a production LTS release, let alone
dropping support for the tried-and-tested d-i installer.

Fortunately, it seems common sense prevailed and when the focal beta was
released earlier this month, I found the traditional d-i images (along
with netboot & mini.iso) in addition to the useless live-server image.
It's sad that eventually subiquity would be the only option available, I
just hope that it is half as functional as the d-i installer when that
happens.

At least I'm good for now as far as the Focal release is concerned.

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