I am also seeing this issue in VMware Fusion 3.1.2 on a MacBook Pro,
using the 11.04 i386 Beta1 DVD image, in a text-mode installation.
The installation appears to hang almost immediately after text-mode
installation is selected.
The installation screen will appear and installation can be
I also observed the message error: fd0 read error. on my intel core
duo laptop. I was also able to make it go away by disabling legacy FDD
emulation in the BIOS. (In my Toshiba QOSMIO BIOS, the entry is USB-
FDD Legacy Emulation. No floppy is connected.)
I confirmed that the message was being