Install choking after country selection

[Lee Holmes]

Hi there - I'm having a few issues installing Ubuntu. I actually tried 
installing the daily from Monday (27th) but had this problem, and it was 
recommended to me that I try the 'sounder-test 9' install 
(http://cdimage.ubuntulinux.org/sounder-test/9/) and post here if I was 
still having problems. I checked the md5, burned the disc and ran into 
the exact same problem.

Basically what happens is the installer kicks in, I choose English as my 
language, then I choose the UK as my country (same thing happens with 
USA incidentally) and the next menu screen never shows up. I've waited 4 
or 5 minutes with no sign of activity. All I get is the blue screen, 
with a white line along the bottom and a black cursor (which also 
appears momentarily between menu screens). I can type with the cursor so 
it doesn't seem as though curses has actually hung or anything. 
Ctrl+Cing gives me some graphical corruption, and eventually 
segmentation faults if I keep at it.

I wanted to get some more information to pass onto you, so I opened 
another console and checked the syslog and dmesg but nothing really 
jumped out at me. I tried to mount one of my partitions to dump a copy 
of each over there, but a quick look in /dev showed no signs of any 
available media - no /dev/floppy, no /dev/hdanything, not even a cdrom 
which I thought was strange for a CD-based install. I don't know if any 
of this is important.

If anyone can help me out here I'd appreciate it - just tell me what you 
need to know and I'll try and get the information for you. Ubuntu sounds 
like a great distro and I'd really like to try it out, I currently use 
Gentoo but compiling everything on a 700Mz machine requires more 
patience than I possess to be honest :)