Public bug reported:
I was recently given an old IBM Aptiva (K6-2 @ 500 MHz; 96 MB RAM,
shared with video) and tried installing Feisty on it with the alternate
install disk. It *seemed* to lock up at the "Configuring language-pack-
en-base" stage, so I did a search and it seems that other people have
had this problem, but its not actually locked up, its just a very very
very slow step on these older computers and if you leave it alone for a
long time (hours in some cases) it finishes just fine and then proceeds
(some of the later steps also take a long time too). See
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=208027 for reports by other
people of the same behavior.
Would it be possible, as a wishlist type bug, to add a little ASCII
indicator to the alternate install CD to show that the step is actually
being worked on? e.g. like for fsck when it checks the HD, repeating
these four characters in the same spot to show a little spinning dial: /
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** Affects: Ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: Unconfirmed
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Alternate Install CD looks like it locked up on older systems, but is just slow
:)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/114166
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