I have seen this on the gutsy betas for some time. I thought it was a partition issue, but running the installer in debug mode I see that if you wait a few minutes a log message appears that complains about the network card firmware. I have recently reinstalled without the error by copying the correct firmware to /lib/firmware before doing the install.
It just looks like it is hanging on the formatting, it is in fact on the next step when it hangs. This never seems to time out, as I have left the installer for 20 minutes and nothing proceeds past the 5% progress - formatting of the last partition specified. Dell 1501 laptop needing bcm43xx firmware for the wireless card. -- [gutsy beta] installer hangs when formatting partitions https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/146687 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
