The most recent build I downloaded today March 21 (b9f4ddfac35fbc67c54122f83667a5d7) did not have this problem. It loaded in a reasonable time and had no error messages.
-- Feisty i386 DesktopCD does not boot on slower machine (g-s-t race condition?) https://launchpad.net/bugs/94301 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
