Comment 1 for bug 527596

I thought that the following might be useful in resolving this issue:

-the original bug report came from an attempt to install Mint with the KDE GUI.
-after filing the report, I attempted to install Mint with the Gnome front-end and it quit at the same place.
-I then attempted to install Kubuntu 9.10 and got the same thing.
-the machine config:
      MSI P4MAM2-v2 (MS-7095 v1) Motherboard
      Intel P4 Celeron 2.4ghz
      2 GB RAM
      Chipsets: VIA P4M266A & VT8237
      ATI 9200 AGP Video

I am installing to the 3rd partition (ext3) on the first IDE drive, the 2nd partition is a 5gb SWAP. The first partition contains a WindowsXP SP3 system using Win7 BSD boot.

I previously ran Ubuntu 9.04 with this same setup.

Cheers, P.