Fastguy, if you are patient then the installation may complete -- I had to leave it sit for a couple of minutes each time it went to look for hardware (ie after most interactions.) It's pretty annoying but the installation did complete. (May not work for you.)
-- [feisty] hald adds/removes same device many times a second causing high loads and extremally slow performance https://launchpad.net/bugs/81915 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs