18 monthes later, I strongly agree with BusDriver. I'm one out of the 1% that 
spent their time and keep on trying, so I describe my issue here with 8.04 
installation. It seems to be somewhat related: I even couldn't get the live 
setup GUI, only a dark screen with an esoteric message *not to be read by a 
newbie* after Linux was loaded into the RAM. My hardware was PIII/550MHz 768MB 
(i440BX) and.... on board S3Virge video with 4MB (IBM PC 300 GL) to supply 
video to a flat 19" Belinea 101920 (800*600 to 1024*1280 capable). I can't know 
if the video chip is PCI or AGP because changing the setting in the BIOS makes 
no difference: both doesn't work with Ubuntu, both works with XP or Debian Etch 
4.0.3.
At least a minimum HW requirements list should be available in the first text 
mode steps, and, maybe,  a "Stop! Install MS-DOS instead - your hardware is no 
more hi-end enough to continue" message ;-)

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Ubiquity dialogues too large for 800x600 display
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