warty install on x86 machine [freezes]

[Aroon Pahwa]

On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 18:04:02 -0500, Aroon Pahwa <viperstyx at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 17:28:41 -0500, Aroon Pahwa <viperstyx at gmail.com> wrote:
> > hey everyone!
> >
> > after a brief stint of not running ubuntu on any of my systems, im
> > back!  im trying to install 4.10 on a computer i pieced together from
> > spare parts.  its a p3 850 on an old gateway mobo (intel 440bx
> > chipset).
> >
> > i can run the warty live cd just fine but when i try to install hoary
> > i get an error during install.  the complaint is that 'debootstrap'
> > failed with return value of 1.
> >
> > i tried installing warty 4.10 and install just freezes at 37%
> > (installing core packages).  it sounds like i may be having burn
> > issues it just seems odd that the live cd happened to work while both
> > install cds happened to have some kind of crc/burn/some other data
> > integrity error.  anyone have any clues?
> >
> > im going to try downloading the 4.10 install cd and doing an md5 check
> > on it.  somehow i feel like there used to be a way to do an internet
> > install of ubuntu?  ie. there was a basic install cd that would grab
> > all the core packages from the net during installation to ensure you
> > got the latest software.  am i just crazy?
> >
> > thanks everyone and its good to be back =]
> >
> > aroon
> >
> > ps. i have more gmail invites than i know what to do with.  let me
> > know if you want one!
> >
> 
> well, i just ran an md5 check on the install image i downloaded and
> everything checks out.  so any reasons people know of for why install
> may be failing would be helpful.  any installation parameters i could
> use to help?
> 
> aroon
> 

well, here i am again emailing from my new ubuntu system.  turns out
the processor i was using was bad.  now im running on a p3 550 i had
lying around.

yay =]

aroon