thank you.i had the same problem (installer always hangs during "select and install software" - around 10% of the progress)
my laptop: LENOVO ideapad 100 i install in legacy mode (mbr, not UEFI). i tried with debian 8, 9 and 10: same problem. so i read the comments, and in the BIOS i put: Boot priority: "UEFI first" OS Optimized Defaults: "Win8"then i installed debian 9 (with mbr partitioning, as i always do), and it works.
