Alternate Install CD looks like it locked up on older systems, but is just slow

[Conrad Knauer]

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: / | \ -

[Markus Thielmann (thielmann)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.

This bug did not have a package associated with it, which is important for ensuring that it gets looked at by the proper developers.
You can learn more about finding the right package at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage .

I have classified this bug as a bug in "debian-installer".

[teledyn (garym-teledyn)]

I am having the same problem with a Toshiba Satellite 1710cds laptop, under Ubuntu 11.10 and 12.04 alt-iso for i386, it gets to the 14% mark with the language-pack-en-base, and the hard drive gets VERY busy, but the install does not proceed, even when left for 24 hours (I will let it run to see if it ever comes back)

this does NOT occur with the 10.04 alt-iso, that distro goes through the install without incident, its just that this laptop has no hope of running the gnome desktop ;)