Binary package hint: ubiquity
On the i386 livecd desktop version of Ubuntu 8.10, ubiquity kernel panics at 50% when detecting the hard-drives and partitions in my system just before the partition editor. Everything freezes up including the mouse and keyboard and the system is unresponsive until reboot. As such I am unable to progress in the install of this Ubuntu Version. Previous versions are working fine. I checked the CD copy, and the ISO image file and it matches the MD5 sums, so is a good disk to.
The system is a P5k Pro motherboard, Quad Core q6600 slakr, 4 gigs of ram, 3 hard drives (2 sata Raptor drives, 1 ide drive, and 1 ide cdrom drive), graphics card is an ATI Radeon HD 3xxx running in vesa driver as display is not detected probally (out-of monitor range).
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