<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#003300"> Patrick von Reth wrote: <blockquote cite="midd8663a4105060510514c51d9f3@mail.gmail.com" type="cite">every time I tried to install kubuntu the system crashed in the same moment. I tried to install it normally and I installed it to VM Ware. there is a screen shot in this mail </blockquote> I have had the same problem with the "configuring apt" stage - it seems that the installer is unable to connect to the repositories for some reason. However, it DOES time-out (after about 20+ mins iirc for each stage), and after that the installation proceeds normally. I found also that the repositories set up in sources.list ("uk.archive.ubuntu.com") had to be changed to the US servers to work. </body> </html>