7.10 installer is unusable

[oobe-feisty]

To start off let me explain my situation i have just over 1TB of hard drives
1 750 GB ntfs for data only ( its nearly full)
1 200 GB partioned ( XP sp2 on sda1 feisty on sda5 and sda6 is for testing other linux distros) + 1GB swap
also a vfat 120 HD for mythtv

when the installer starts after filling in my location it seemed to take a long time to load the next screen as it was scanning my partition table this seemed normal at first but it was taken much longer than normal so i ran ps aux | grep ntfs
and found the ntfsresize was running on my hard drives this alarmed me as it gave me no choice and i do not consider this essential as i only want to pick sda6
as my target which is already partioned to ext3 i figured out after killing it as it made me nervous this was ok so i started again after waiting way to long for it to complete this unnecessary procedure it finally took me to the partition selection screen and i could select which partition to install on i selected sda6
and the next screen had import files and settings i selected not to do this it froze again i determined it was running mount /mnt/filesystem or something i cant remember fully on my xp ntfs drive
and to get it to the next stage i had to umount it then once it got to 83% of install it froze while
downloading unecessary language packs that i don't need and didn't ask for the download was estimated between 2 and 15 mins it was fluctuating according to speed i have a 6 mb connection and should expect this to take 2 mins max i noticed i could cancel so i did then it started to try to import settings remember the feature that froze previously which i already chose not to do it tried anyway
then it froze so i unmounted the ntfs mount and install dies with and error.

thats it im not trying to install it anymore till a stable version is out based on a proper ubuntu release not a beta one I'm only posting this as feedback I'm well aware that other people have had success with this version but im letting you know that these problems make it unusable for people with certain system setups and the installer requires more options i do not like software that assumes you dont know how to do anything yourself and refuses to give you a choice this post is meant to be constructive as imm extremly please with ubuntu 7.04 and now have it as my main OS im still searching for a mythtv distro that can provide an out of the box experience i believe that mythbuntu has that potential as i have had great experiences setting up mythtv in ubuntu how ever the installer needs a lot of work below is a summary of what i believe should be changed fixed


freezes during install
takes ages to mount drives and get to stage 4 of setup after you select location
need to umount its ntfs mount point to proceed
downloading language packs should be optional
ntfs resize should not run in back ground
should be able to disable import files and settings
also it would be nice if i could apt-get the mythbuntu add ons from an existing stable ubuntu install so iim just adding packages

PS this is my first post and do not wish to start off on a negative note and would like to say that this is a great distro and community my main reason for posting this is that i want to contribute to the
improvement of the myth/ubuntu installer