Install choking after country selection

[Lee Holmes]

Anyone? I haven't a clue what I'm doing here and nobody else seems to be 
having a problem like this...

Lee Holmes wrote:

> 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 :)
>