Comment 1 for bug 91239

gparted is horrible and bad and wrong and has been intentionally removed. There's absolutely no way I'm going back to it; instead I will be progressively improving the current interface. SPECIFIC suggestions would be good rather than vague comments. See http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Ubiquity/AdvancedPartitionerRewrite for the plans (not all of which are done yet).

If the entire disk contains a Windows XP partition, then the installer should already display an option to shrink that partition and install Ubuntu in the free space. Please attach /var/log/syslog and /var/log/partman (/var/log/installer/syslog and /var/log/installer/partman if you've completed the installation) to this bug so that I can determine why this didn't happen.