Lucid instal probs (more) corrrection

[Grizzly]

On 12 April 2010 at 16:19, Lucio M Nicolosi 
Enlightened me with this:-Re: Lucid instal probs (more) corrrection

>On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 3:32 PM, Grizzly <Real_Grizz_Adams at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>> Hi All
>>
>> Well  now I've got all four .ISO's (Beta1 & Alt,  Beta2 & Alt) and still no joy
>>
>>
>> getting it to install,
>>
>> Beta 1 installed but hung on the logo screen with five (static) red dots
>> Beta 1 Alt Upgrade took 9+ hours and hung during the process
>> Beta 2 Menu cycles thru the 5 second count down  no matter what menu option you
>> choose
>> Beta 2 Alt Upgrade took 8+ hours and gave an orange screen (I think it re-
>> booted but not sure, done over night)
>> Beta 2 Alt Upgrade took 6 ish hours but I sat and watched every dam minute, it
>> then returned a "Sorry your upgrade failed" after the timer had passed no time
>> left,  It was prosessing one of the Pyhton Triggers  just before the message
>>
>> My systen is not cutting edge so hardware should not be a prob
>>
>> AMD Athlon 2600XP
>> 1gb Ram (2x512 PC2700)
>> nVidia MX440
>>
>> 9.10 worked but would not install to my External USB Partition, it wanted to
>> (and did) over write my existing data partition
>>
>
>It seems that you tried to upgrade over a previous install. Perhaps,
>if there's hd space available, you could try a fresh install.
>
>I just fresh installed Beta on a HD similar to yours and it is working
>very well.

I have tried both install & update (hence having all four ISO's)