Help! frozen install of 10.10 from windows

[comethalley]

Please, bear with me, I'm not computer savvy!
I tried installing using the universal usb creator last night on my new eee pc 1005ha, at least 8 hours ago. I only got to the screen where you choose your keyboard and language. The screen said "ready when you are." but it showed that it was only half loaded. When I suspended, it went back to being not loaded at all, and said it was waiting to get the time from a network server - its been there since (no progress at all). When I suspend, I get a screen that says something like "unidentifiable error - user id." What should I do, and (forgive me if this is dumb) is it safe for me to unplug and try again? I'm guessing nothing got reformatted yet, but I really don't want to brivk my brand new computer.:(

[Quackers]

Your username must not start or end with a capital letter and have no "special characters" in it. Also a password MUST be entered and confirmed. An empty password field is not allowed.
Does this help?

[comethalley]

wow, that's embarrassing... But thanks soooo much - I'm now writing from my spiffy shiny 10.10 netbook!!!:p

[sikander3786]

wow, that's embarrassing... But thanks soooo much - I'm now writing from my spiffy shiny 10.10 netbook!!!:p
Yep thats embarassing. The installer needs to return an error and tell that it is not accepting the username, which, it doesn't. However I know it has been fixed in the next release i.e, 11.04.

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