Bit of followup: I ran the installer again, and tried a less complicated manual configuration and got the same result.
But, the alternate install CD was able to handle my config ( / mounted to hda1, swap mounted to hda5, and /home mounted to hdb1). -- TypeError: execv() arg 2 must contain only strings https://launchpad.net/bugs/64447 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs