Ubuntu will not install

[Steve Bromley]

Matt, 

I wish it were.  I reburned the CD using the lowest speed and tried it
on another box and it worked successfully.  I switched CD drives and the
problem still exists.  I am running older but pretty vanilla hardware in
that box but the problem persists.  I will throw on Red Hat just to see
if it installs but really want Ubuntu.  I love this distribution and
want to stay with it.  I am a relative noob so it may be something
stupid on my part.

Steve

On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 13:14 -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 11:22:32AM -0500, Steve Bromley wrote:
> 
> > I have an older box 466Mz, 256 meg of memory, lots of disk.  When I try
> > to install Ubuntu, it goes through about 25-30% and then I get the
> > following error:
> > 
> > 	debootstrap (program exted with an error (return value 139) 
> > 
> > It lists a place where the error log is.  The problem is, how do I
> > access it, I can't seem to get the Ubuntu live CD to run even though the
> > Install CD will work.
> 
> Most likely there was an error either downloading or burning the CD image.
> 
> -- 
>  - mdz
>