Comment 2 for bug 2054205

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Paul White (paulw2u) wrote : Re: I was insalling ubuntu and it crashed during installation

From UbiquitySyslog.txt which was added to this bug report:

Feb 17 18:14:28 ubuntu kernel: [ 172.639918] SQUASHFS error: zlib decompression failed, data probably corrupt
Feb 17 18:14:28 ubuntu kernel: [ 172.639924] SQUASHFS error: Failed to read block 0x9f794d97: -5
Feb 17 18:14:28 ubuntu kernel: [ 172.643840] SQUASHFS error: zlib decompression failed, data probably corrupt
Feb 17 18:14:28 ubuntu kernel: [ 172.643844] SQUASHFS error: Failed to read block 0x9f794d97: -5

It's possible you had a bad write to your installation media or for some other reason its contents could not be read correctly. If you've tried again and are still having problems you should try re-writing the image to your media (and may be re-download the image too).