*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 69470 *** Thanks for the info, as it happens the hard drive was faulty. I replaced it and installed Xubuntu 6.06 with no problems at all.
Regards, Ken. Colin Watson wrote: > *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 69470 *** > > Most of this is due to a bus error encountered due to errors apparently > produced while communicating with the hard disk. This is often due to a > faulty hard disk, and at any rate isn't an installer bug as such. It may > help to check whether the hard disk is old and in need of replacement, > or to move the system to a cooler environment. > > That said, ubiquity's poor response to this event is bug 69470. > > ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 69470 > MASTER: dpkg error on do_remove > > -- Installer Crashed when installing - delete entire drive https://launchpad.net/bugs/86167 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs