Comment 1 for bug 108731

Not all of this is straightforwardly fixable: in order to avoid massive duplication of effort and divergent bugs between the alternate installer and the desktop installer, the latter is implemented as much in terms of the former as possible, and this involves running external programs from time to time which is probably what's causing the CD to spin up and down. However, I don't understand why clicking on the timezone map would do this, nor why typing characters in the keymap test box would do this.

I'm gradually working on optimising the new partitioner.