Install hung at "Configuring console-setup"

Gutsy is no longer supported in ANY way so installing it would be a waste of time. There is no such thing as vanilla hardware.

Did you MD5 test the ISO you downloaded for Lucid?
Did you burn a CD? If so was it burned as slowly as possible? Did you check the CD for defects once initially booted to?
Did you test your RAM for errors?

Thanks for your quick response.

The CD-ROM integrity check was opted from the main screen and was returned
valid. Memtest86 was successful returning no errors. The burn was not at
the slowest speed possible as I noted the recording speed in ISO Recorder
was set to 48x. If you think it is worth a try, I can burn another disk at
16x.

On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 12:21 PM, actionparsnip <
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> Gutsy is no longer supported in ANY way so installing it would be a
> waste of time. There is no such thing as vanilla hardware.
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> Did you MD5 test the ISO you downloaded for Lucid?
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> the CD for defects once initially booted to?
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The CD checked out so is ok. Burning bootable CDs at lower speeds makes a better imprint on the surface and can help but the self check is passing so the disk is fine.

You can install without a network connection. It isn't mandatory. I suggest you do this then configure network connectivity when you first boot the OS.

Thanks actionparsnip for the direction. Will run with this then update the
post.

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> The CD checked out so is ok. Burning bootable CDs at lower speeds makes
> a better imprint on the surface and can help but the self check is
> passing so the disk is fine.
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> You can install without a network connection. It isn't mandatory. I
> suggest you do this then configure network connectivity when you first
> boot the OS.
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Update on issue.

When the DHCP configuration failed, I took the option to Configure later but the installer still hung at the same point. Hit F6 and manually configured the NIC before installing the base components but that too was met with failure.

Disabled the on board NIC and installed an older D-Link 10/100 card and that did install and configure successfully and I was able to ping the IP on the LAN. The installer however still hangs at the same point.

Still open for any other suggestions as I go back to the closet and pull out an old pc to try.

As said actionparsnip, you could install without network, and then run update-manager to get remaining packages.
It would be more easy to work from an installed Ubuntu than from Ubuntu CD.