I just experience (an hour ago) the same problem during the installation of xubuntu-7.10-alternate-i386.iso (release date: 09-Oct-2007 21:36), on my ibm r50e laptop with Intel 855GM video chipset. The trick is to wait for the hard drive & cd-rom drive activity to stop and just press enter.
-- Alternate install of Tribe-4 corrupts video display when installing packages (affected hardware includes Santa Rosa) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/127008 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs