Users have thought that it's doing nothing and hung... me!

I spent several days time cursing at the machine because it couldn't get
the RAID setup correctly when all that was wrong were three things:

1. I wasn't familiar with the installer.
2. The set of partitions I have just so happens to be such that the "Guided 
Install" and "Help" options stay unmoved when I add raid partitions. The 
"Configure RAID" option is just out of view. If people leave the partition 
screen before using that option, the next screen is not very helpful, warning 
you that you have no "/" mount point, etc. If it had mentioned the option that 
seemed invisible (and they don't mention that you have to scroll up anywhere) 
it would have saved me at least a day. The screen never jumped, and I never 
thought to scroll UP.
3. If you get a RAID half-installed, you have to (at least I did) use the live 
CD, apt-get mdadm, and then umount, stop the raid, and zero the superblocks to 
get rid of it. I think the installer disk automounts the raid (my guess) 
because it won't let you delete a RAID successfully once you've rebooted once. 
It only works while you're setting the RAID up on that boot cycle.

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setting up raid partitions takes very long and installer shows no progress bar 
for it
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/81816
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