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: / | \ - ** Affects: Ubuntu Importance: Undecided Status: Unconfirmed -- Alternate Install CD looks like it locked up on older systems, but is just slow :) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/114166 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs