[Bug 114166] Re: Alternate Install CD looks like it locked up on older systems, but is just slow :)

[teledyn]

I am having the same problem with a Toshiba Satellite 1710cds laptop,
under Ubuntu 11.10 and 12.04 alt-iso for i386, it gets to the 14% mark
with the language-pack-en-base, and the hard drive gets VERY busy, but
the install does not proceed, even when left for 24 hours (I will let it
run to see if it ever comes back)

this does NOT occur with the 10.04 alt-iso, that distro goes through the
install without incident, its just that this laptop has no hope of
running the gnome desktop ;)

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Title:
  Alternate Install CD looks like it locked up on older systems, but is
  just slow :)

Status in “debian-installer” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I was recently given an old IBM Aptiva (K6-2 @ 500 MHz; 96 MB RAM,
  shared with video) and tried installing Feisty on it with the
  alternate install disk.  It *seemed* to lock up at the "Configuring
  language-pack-en-base" stage, so I did a search and it seems that
  other people have had this problem, but its not actually locked up,
  its just a very very very slow step on these older computers and if
  you leave it alone for a long time (hours in some cases) it finishes
  just fine and then proceeds (some of the later steps also take a long
  time too).  See http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=208027 for
  reports by other people of the same behavior.

  Would it be possible, as a wishlist type bug, to add a little ASCII
  indicator to the alternate install CD to show that the step is
  actually being worked on? e.g. like for fsck when it checks the HD,
  repeating these four characters in the same spot to show a little
  spinning dial: / | \ -

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