Tried to install Dapper... manually configured the partitions... before this I tried to install Dapper and I had the installer configure my drives for me (I have winXP on hda1) and i made the partitions and the installer got to 77%. It froze and I rebooted (hard reboot from case). On 2nd install attempt, got this error...
Ubiquity 2.0.12
Mon, 05 Jun 2006 04:56:31 INFO switched to page stepLanguage
ubiquity: Starting up '['/usr/lib/ubiquity/localechooser/localechooser']' for ubiquity.components.language.Language
ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^languagechooser/language-name
Mon, 05 Jun 2006 04:56:40 INFO Step_before = stepLanguage
Mon, 05 Jun 2006 04:56:41 INFO switched to page stepLocation
Mon, 05 Jun 2006 04:56:41 INFO Step_after = stepLocation
ubiquity: Starting up '['/usr/share/ubiquity/tzsetup']' for ubiquity.components.timezone.Timezone
ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^time/zone$
Mon, 05 Jun 2006 04:56:49 INFO Step_before = stepLocation
Mon, 05 Jun 2006 04:56:49 INFO switched to page stepKeyboardConf
Mon, 05 Jun 2006 04:56:49 INFO Step_after = stepKeyboardConf
ubiquity: kbd-chooser prepare
ubiquity: Starting up '['/bin/sh', '-c', '. /usr/share/debconf/confmodule; exec /usr/lib/ubiquity/kbd-chooser/kbd-chooser']' for ubiquity.components.kbd_chooubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^kbd-chooser/method$, ^console-keymaps.*/keymap$, ERROR
ubiquity: apply_keyboard: us
ubiquity: apply_keyboard: layout us, model pc104
ubiquity: Display map: {u'Swedish': u'se-latin1', u'Icelandic': u'is-latin1', u'Estonian': u'et', u'Romanian': u'ro', u'Italian': u'it', u'Latin American': uubiquity: Untranslated choices: [u'by', u'bg', u'croat', u'cz-lat2', u'sg-latin1', u'de-latin1-nodeadkeys', u'dk-latin1', u'us', u'uk', u'dvorak', u'et', u'eubiquity: Choices: [u'Belarusian', u'Bulgarian', u'Croatian', u'Czech', u'Swiss German', u'German', u'Danish', u'American English', u'British English', u'Dvoubiquity: console-keymaps-at/keymap db: us
Mon, 05 Jun 2006 04:56:52 INFO Step_before = stepKeyboardConf
Mon, 05 Jun 2006 04:56:52 INFO switched to page stepUserInfo
Mon, 05 Jun 2006 04:56:52 INFO Step_after = stepUserInfo
ubiquity: Starting up '['/usr/lib/ubiquity/user-setup/user-setup-ask', '/target']' for ubiquity.components.usersetup.UserSetup
ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^passwd/user-fullname$, ^passwd/username$, ^passwd/user-password$, ^passwd/user-password-again$, ERROR
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ON STATE: 2
ON STATE: 3
ON STATE: 4
ON STATE: 5
ON STATE: 6
ON STATE: 7
ON STATE: 8
Mon, 05 Jun 2006 04:56:59 INFO Step_before = stepUserInfo
Mon, 05 Jun 2006 04:56:59 INFO switched to page stepPartDisk
Mon, 05 Jun 2006 04:56:59 INFO Step_after = stepPartDisk
ubiquity: Starting up '/bin/partman' for ubiquity.components.partman.Partman
ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^partman-auto/select_disk$, ^partman-auto/.*automatically_partition$, ^partman-partitioning/new_size$, ^partman/choounsupported
kernelmodules_basicfilesystems
kernelmodules_ext3
kernelmodules_jfs
kernelmodules_reiserfs
kernelmodules_xfs
umount_target
parted
dump
update_partitions
filesystems_detected
auto_mountpoints
autouse_swap
backup
W10: Warning: Changing a readonly file 1,10 Top
Could you please attach the whole of /var/log/