blinovitch
September 10th, 2011, 04:51 PM
I have a Dell Inspiron 1501 that has successfully run Ubuntu for a while, currently on 10.04 LTS. Recently, it began having kernel panic issues. A friend suggested that in light of memory and disk checks suggesting everything was fine, the best recourse was to reinstall the OS.
So I burned a 10.04.3 live disc yesterday and booted it to start the process. Only when I begin the installation process, either from the desktop icon in the live session or via the menu option before the session boots, the installation process gets stuck after clicking Forward from the "Where are you?" screen, where the installer asks what time zone to use. The waiting icon spins and spins without ever doing anything.
Is there somewhere I can look for error messages or a log of what's happening? I've never encountered problems during the installation process before, so I'm at a loss as to where to start.
So I burned a 10.04.3 live disc yesterday and booted it to start the process. Only when I begin the installation process, either from the desktop icon in the live session or via the menu option before the session boots, the installation process gets stuck after clicking Forward from the "Where are you?" screen, where the installer asks what time zone to use. The waiting icon spins and spins without ever doing anything.
Is there somewhere I can look for error messages or a log of what's happening? I've never encountered problems during the installation process before, so I'm at a loss as to where to start.