I was unable to recover from the crash. I have since reinstalled from the Xubuntu "alternate" disk and it worked fine. The ubuntu site recommends this for system with less than 128MB such as the one I was installing it on. It worked fine. Perhaps the issues I was having were all due to lack of available memory.
-scott -- Installer Crashed https://launchpad.net/bugs/52827 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs