Comment 17 for bug 430333

update: I downloaded and installed the 20091020.2 image http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-netbook-remix/daily-live/20091020.2/ -- I chose to use the entire disk (which failed so badly before) but this time the installation completed normally. After the first boot, there are lots of GNOME warnings (four applets are broken, and the gvfs-gdu-volume-monitor closed unexpectedly.) a sudo fsck -fn showed a few problems with the filesystem:

aem@eee-aem:~$ sudo fsck -fn
fsck from util-linux-ng 2.16
e2fsck 1.41.9 (22-Aug-2009)
Warning! /dev/sda1 is mounted.
Warning: skipping journal recovery because doing a read-only filesystem check.
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Deleted inode 110 has zero dtime. Fix? no

Inodes that were part of a corrupted orphan linked list found. Fix? no

Inode 1120 was part of the orphaned inode list. IGNORED.
Inode 1121 was part of the orphaned inode list. IGNORED.
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information
Free blocks count wrong (6919396, counted=6919402).
Fix? no

Inode bitmap differences: -110 -(1120--1121) -1126
Fix? no

Free inodes count wrong for group #0 (1195, counted=1194).
Fix? no

Free inodes count wrong (1762464, counted=1762463).
Fix? no

/dev/sda1: ********** WARNING: Filesystem still has errors **********

/dev/sda1: 126192/1888656 files (0.1% non-contiguous), 625121/7544517 blocks
aem@eee-aem:~$