showing faulty HARD DISK OR installation cd/dvd fault

[prasanna purushotham]

asking a manual partition , dev/0 something i have forgotten, and showing hard disk may be old.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: ubiquity 18.04.14.6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-29.31-generic 4.15.18
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-29-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.2
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.394
Date: Thu Dec 13 21:42:11 2018
InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash ---
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180725)
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to review all reported bugs in a timely manner.

The following errors can be found in UbiquitySyslog.txt which was automatically attached to this bug report:

Dec 13 16:10:35 ubuntu kernel: [ 2322.872150] SQUASHFS error: zlib decompression failed, data probably corrupt
Dec 13 16:10:35 ubuntu kernel: [ 2322.872157] SQUASHFS error: squashfs_read_data failed to read block 0x4cf12dc1

It's possible you had a bad write to your media. When having such problems should try the option to check the integrity of the image from the installer boot menu, and if this confirms that the media is corrupt, try re-writing it.

I'm closing this bug due to the time that has elapsed since you raised it. I hope you were eventually successful installing Ubuntu.