Installations locks up

[NoOp]

On 05/05/2009 01:53 PM, sjbusak at aim.com wrote:
>    I've been trying for several days now to install the Ubuntu desktop 
> version 9.04 using the alternate CD.   It never finishes and locks up 
> at random locations during installation.  The farthest it's made it so 
> far is to the "Select and Install Software."   I also have a live CD 
> for 8.04 and that seems to work fine if it runs off the CD.  But I 
> can't install that either.  Here's my system information:
> 
>   Generic P.C. brand (not major brand like Dell, H.P., etc.)
>   Athlon XP 1700+
>   512 MB RAM
>   40 GB HDD
>   1024x768 @76
> 
>   When installation starts, the following message flashes on the screen:
> 
>   [2.006844] IO APIC Resources could no be allocated
>   create_floppy_devices [536]: specified group 'floppy' unknown
>   Starting system log daemon: syslogd, klogd

Found several hits here:

<https://launchpad.net/+search?field.text="IO+APIC+resources+could+be+not+be+allocated"&field.actions.search=Search>

You might try the noapic option as mentioned here:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/67944
[cant install ubuntu]
or acpi=off