Chris' trick did allow me to finish installing...
Though ubuntu server 14.04.1 now tried to startx, complained about cups [FAIL] on boot and takes up twice the disk space on / than another similar install...
Furthermore, trying to dpkg -S some files (say startx, to know why it's there) doesn't give anything and "dpkg -l | grep -i linux-image" doesn't return anything either! So basically it corrupted the dpkg installed package list ...
I'll have to reinstall, but not sure how at this point...
Chris' trick did allow me to finish installing...
Though ubuntu server 14.04.1 now tried to startx, complained about cups [FAIL] on boot and takes up twice the disk space on / than another similar install...
Furthermore, trying to dpkg -S some files (say startx, to know why it's there) doesn't give anything and "dpkg -l | grep -i linux-image" doesn't return anything either! So basically it corrupted the dpkg installed package list ...
I'll have to reinstall, but not sure how at this point...