Comment 8 for bug 339198

Steve Langasek wrote:
> I don't see that there's anything here that needs to be documented in
> the release notes. The installer should automatically install all of
> the updates available at the time you're installing; it sounds like you
> ran into a bug that has already been fixed in later updates.
>
> ** Changed in: ubuntu-release-notes
> Status: New => Invalid
>
You install the Ubuntu 8.10 from the live cd and then you end up with a
frozen machine. Isn't that clear enough? The installer does not fix it,
otherwise I would never have experienced the problem.

Only by starting with an older kernel will enable you to do the updates.