Ubuntu 6.06 install takes infinite amount of time

Wisely Koh wiselykoh at gmail.com
Sun Jul 2 10:49:57 UTC 2006


I had the same problem when I tried to install it on machines with
less than 300mb ram.. try it on a pc with more ram and see what
happens..



On 7/2/06, Anurag <anurag at web.gnuer.org> wrote:
>
>
> On 7/2/06, िऩऩाद <freeninad at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > I downloaded the ubuntu ISO "ubuntu-6.06-desktop-i386.iso" . I wrote it to
> a cd and booted it.
> > The live cd worked great and I was impressed by the new look and changes.
> I decided to install.
> > I clicked on the install icon.
> > This started the install but the pc hanged(mouse and keyboard not
> responding) during the timezone selection.
> >  I tried again and succeeded in going past the userid and password screen
> but now the pc hangs at the manual partitionscreen with no display of the
> partitions. Reaching to this took almost 45 minutes.And all this time there
> were no error messages and there was continuous harddisk and cd activity
> going on on the computer
> >
> > Is this the right image which i downloaded
> > Is there any alternative way to install ubuntu
>
>
> Even though Ubuntu now has graphical installer, i dont prefer to use it at
> all. You might want to download the ``Ubuntu Alternate Install CD'' which
> has the old debian-installer type of installation method. It works great for
> me.
>
> Anurag
>
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