Ubuntu will not install

Matt Zimmerman mdz at canonical.com
Mon Oct 18 20:14:12 UTC 2004


On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 11:22:32AM -0500, Steve Bromley wrote:

> I have an older box 466Mz, 256 meg of memory, lots of disk.  When I try
> to install Ubuntu, it goes through about 25-30% and then I get the
> following error:
> 
> 	debootstrap (program exted with an error (return value 139) 
> 
> It lists a place where the error log is.  The problem is, how do I
> access it, I can't seem to get the Ubuntu live CD to run even though the
> Install CD will work.

Most likely there was an error either downloading or burning the CD image.

-- 
 - mdz




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