installation is too ...... slow

[Nikhil Fernandes]

On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 15:19 +0800, Junxue Li wrote:
> Hi dear all,
> 
>  
> 
>   I downloaded a desktop ISO (6.0.6), burned it to a CD and tried to
> install it from CD at home.
> 
>   But the installation was too slow, almost stopped when 51% or 36%
> finished. Someone told me to plug off the network line, but it did not
> help.
> 
>   Someone told me to wait, it may last about 3 hours. I waited about 8
> hours, the next morning I found it was still 51%.
> 
>  
> 
>   I searched the web but found no solution.
> 
>  
> 
>   BTW: I chose English as the default language during installation.
> Also I had 20 G for ubuntu, to let the setup program to partition
> automatically.
> 
>  
> 
>   Any suggestions on this? I do wish to use ubuntu ASAP.
> 

I had the same problem - switching to one of the alternate consoles
(CTRL-ALT-Fn) showed that there were hard-drive problems. Reseating my
IDE cable did the trick.