I confirm that using: nouveau.modeset=0 as written by Deepankar Gupta in #5 solves that the installation no longer freezes.
The same issue is seen on both Ubuntu 18.04 and 18.10. My graphics card is an Nvidia Geforce GTX 1060, cpu I7-8750H -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1767594 Title: Ubuntu-18.04 Installation/Upgrade freezes/does not work. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1767594/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs