Ubuntu slow to install - normal???

[Wuzup101]

Hey just wondering, I haven't played around with linux recently, but since buying a powerbook about a year and a half ago I have found little use for my windows box. I decided it would be a perfect canidate for some linux experimenting. After reading a bit and doing some research I decided to give ubuntu a try (and downloaded the i386 5.10 version). I'm currently installing it on my PC, and it's taking forever. I started at ~7pm this morning give or take a few min, and it's now 10:20 and i'm at 27% of "Copying remaining packages to hard disk." Is this normal, or has something gone awry? The specs of the machine:

-AMD "barton" core AXP2500 (turned all my settings back to default so it's not oc'ed)
-1gb pc3200 RAM
-Abit NF7-S (Nforce2 w/ soundstorm) mobo
-120gb WDSE HDD
-Radeon 9800 Pro (128mb)
-Linksys Wireless Card (the exact make/model escapes me at the moment - I assume that when I hut for drives I'll have to get that info)
-ATI TV tuner card (again make/model unsure - will simply have to break it open later to find out)
-Currently the CD is being read from a 52x CD rom drive

The system hasn't frozen, it is progressing, just at a very slow rate. As I stated, all overclocking settings have been turned down to defualt settings, and there just was a working install of windows on here that I deleted, so the hardware isn't furbur.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Try changing virtual terminals (ctrl alt F2 or so). Maybe one of them has a log of what's going on. I'm guessing there's a DMA/PIO issue.

 

[Wuzup101]

n0cmonkey - I did hit ctrl+alt+F2 and also tried F3 and F4. F4 seems to have a log but I'm not sure exactly what I'm looking for (doesn't seem to have anything with any ERROR or FAILED if that means anything). Any suggestions?

 

[n0cmonkey]

If F2 or F3 give you a command prompt (probably a #), you can look through dmesg for your hard drives to see if they are using DMA or not.

The failures I'm thinking about probably wouldn't be marked as such,

 

[SoundTheSurrender]

I believe Ubuntu downloads a lot of stuff from their server as it installs. so if you have a slow internet, or their servers are slow it will go slow.

 

[Wuzup101]

Actually I installed without being connected to the net. It must have been my one CD drive. After ~1hr following my origional post it just crashed and said there was some sort of read unknown read error. I poped the CD in my DVD drive and the whole thing reinstalled in less than 30 min. I just finished figuring out how to install my wireless dirvers (using ndiswrapper). So now I have linux with working wireless... never had that before... pretty cool 🙂 Thanks for your help all 🙂

Edit: Actually the wireless is quite slow/splotchy... I'm not exactly sure why? It seems to like kicking me off of gaim and files that I'm downloading seem to freeze up when they are larger (IE tried to dl ATI drivers from ATI.com 64mb file only got 15% done).