Install problems - stopped at base system

[Parinya Thipchart]

Hi,

I tried to install Ubuntu 4.10 preview on my old laptop Toshiba 
Satellite 1710cds
( Celeron III 600 MHz, 160M ram,  Network card Dlink DFE-690TXD )
There are the problems I got :

- Automatic config network fail. ( This works fine with Debian-installer )
At this step it's ok coz I can config the network later.

- While it was installing the base system I got the following error:
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The debootstrap program exited with an error (return value 2).
Check /var/log/messages or see virtual console 3 for the details
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It was at 0%.
I checked VT3 and this is what it says:

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eval: 3: Syntax error: newline unexpected (expecting ")")
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With the debian installer, this doesn't happen to me.

Sorry for my bad English.
Parinya