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I'm trying to install Lubuntu 12.10 on a Fujitsu Lifebook C-2220 (Pentium 4 - 2.40GHz, 215MB ram).

I'm installing from a USB drive. I reach the "Where are you?" page, click continue, and get the error ubi-timezone failed with exit code 1. Any suggestions?

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    If the ISO you used to create the boot-stick was not corrupted this thing looks very much like a bug.
    – guntbert
    Mar 3, 2013 at 16:56
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    no - it is not a bug ... you could install two seperated systems with different clocks running... one on Lifebook and one on usb-harddisk - in the end you adjust your boot-manager (think better install it into usb-harddisk) ... Jun 3, 2014 at 20:07
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    could be that there is a cable too wrinkled inside the hardware ?! Jun 16, 2014 at 4:37

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You don't have enough RAM. During the installation, no swap space is activated and if you run out of RAM programs crash. Add more RAM and retry.

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  • This would work, but isn't an easy option... :)
    – rogerdpack
    Jun 23, 2019 at 1:40
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The same question is solved here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2112421.

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  • I don't see a resolution there except "try er again..."?
    – rogerdpack
    Jun 23, 2019 at 0:10
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got the same message installing 19.04 on a macbook box with 2GB RAM

I looked in /var/log/syslog file (as the error message suggested) and saw this up a ways:

I/O Error ubiquity OSError: Errno 28 No space left on device

using the "continue anyway" button it then results in "the installer encountered an unrecoverable error. A desktop session will now be run so that you may investigate the problem or try installing again"

After running the install from a "live cd" so I could monitor the output of "df -h ." while it was installing, sure enough it runs out of disk space.

work around: uncheck "install third-party software for graphics and wifi"

or don't connect to a wi-fi (or wired) network. Uncheck either one and it works. Turns out in this case it is downloading and installing the third party nvidia driver and it "exhausts" the RAM disk drive.

It seems that it installs these new third party packages (nvidia-340, bcmwl-kernel-source) before doing the setting up/mounting of the install disk (which would include some additional swap space on that disk) so it blows up.

It would appear that checking the "download updates" doesn't suffer from the same problem.

sometimes it says "ubi-partman failed with exit code 10" gdisk partman

workaround: install without 3rd party (or without wifi) and then install the 3rd party from the "software updates -> additional drivers" pane after install.

You may want to still install with wifi since you get some "security updates" if you do, from the get go.

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