First off, I have a very old computer. I feel it necessary to point out that it has a Pentium 4 processor, I believe 768 MB of RAM, and about 30 GB total on the hard drive. Now, onto my predicament...

I was recently running Windows XP on my computer. It kept having some issues, so I tried Ubuntu 12.04 32 bit. I put in the CD/DVD, and the installation was working fine until it got to "installing system". It froze there for about 3-3 1/2 hours. I figured something must've been wrong, because a computer couldn't be THAT slow. I then took out the CD/DVD and tried again. The same exact thing happened; froze at "installing system".

Could this be an issue with my computer? I did some research and read that others have managed to run it on a Celeron processor (which is older than a Pentium). Others have also said that a computer similar to mine could run Ubuntu 12.04 quite smoothly.

Please help, Trevis/Twistedstar

PS. This is the output of lshw

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description: Desktop Computer

product: 8753-8233

vendor: VIA TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

width: 32 bits

capabilities: smbios-2.2 dmi-2.2

configuration: boot=normal chassis=desktop

*-core

description: Motherboard

product: VIAP4XB

vendor: VIA TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

physical id: 0

 *-firmware:0

      description: BIOS

      vendor: Award Software International, Inc.

      physical id: 0

      version: 6.00 PG

      date: 05/24/2002

      size: 128KiB

      capacity: 192KiB

      capabilities: isa pci pnp apm upgrade shadowing escd cdboot bootselect socketedrom edd int13floppy360 int13floppy1200 int13floppy720 int13floppy2880 int5printscreen int9keyboard int14serial int17printer int10video acpi usb agp ls120boot zipboot biosbootspecification

 *-cpu

      description: CPU

      product: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.60GHz

      vendor: Intel Corp.

      physical id: 4

      bus info: cpu@0

      version: 15.2.4

      slot: Socket 478

      size: 1600MHz

      capacity: 4GHz

      width: 32 bits

      clock: 100MHz

      capabilities: fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm up pebs bts

      configuration: id=0

    *-cache:0

         description: L1 cache

         physical id: 9

         slot: Internal Cache

         size: 8KiB

         capacity: 16KiB

         capabilities: synchronous internal write-back

    *-cache:1

         description: L2 cache

         physical id: 0

         size: 512KiB

 *-firmware:1

      description: BIOS

      physical id: 516

      size: 1003KiB

      capacity: 1MiB

 *-memory

      description: System Memory

      physical id: 1d

      slot: System board or motherboard

      size: 768MiB

    *-bank:0

         description: DIMM

         physical id: 0

         slot: A0

         size: 256MiB

    *-bank:1

         description: DIMM

         physical id: 1

         slot: A1

         size: 256MiB

    *-bank:2

         description: DIMM

         physical id: 2

         slot: A2

         size: 256MiB

 *-pci

      description: Host bridge

      product: VT8753 [P4X266 AGP]

      vendor: VIA Technologies, Inc.

      physical id: 100

      bus info: pci@0000:00:00.0

      version: 01

      width: 32 bits

      clock: 33MHz

      configuration: driver=agpgart-via

      resources: irq:0 memory:c0000000-cfffffff

    *-pci

         description: PCI bridge

         product: VT8633 [Apollo Pro266 AGP]

         vendor: VIA Technologies, Inc.

         physical id: 1

         bus info: pci@0000:00:01.0

         version: 00

         width: 32 bits

         clock: 66MHz

         capabilities: pci pm normal_decode bus_master cap_list

         resources: ioport:9000(size=4096) memory:d8000000-d9ffffff memory:d0000000-d7ffffff

       *-display

            description: VGA compatible controller

            product: RV100 QY [Radeon 7000/VE]

            vendor: Hynix Semiconductor (Hyundai Electronics)

            physical id: 0

            bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0

            version: 00

            width: 32 bits

            clock: 66MHz

            capabilities: agp agp-2.0 pm vga_controller bus_master vga_palette cap_list rom

            configuration: driver=radeon latency=64 mingnt=8

            resources: irq:11 memory:d0000000-d7ffffff ioport:9000(size=256) memory:d9000000-d900ffff memory:d8000000-d801ffff

    *-network

         description: Ethernet interface

         product: 3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclone]

         vendor: 3Com Corporation

         physical id: 7

         bus info: pci@0000:00:07.0

         logical name: eth0

         version: 30

         serial: 00:10:5a:e3:e6:ea

         size: 10Mbit/s

         capacity: 100Mbit/s

         width: 32 bits

         clock: 33MHz

         capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation

         configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=3c59x duplex=half latency=32 link=no maxlatency=10 mingnt=10 multicast=yes port=MII speed=10Mbit/s

         resources: irq:12 ioport:a000(size=128) memory:db000000-db00007f memory:30000000-3001ffff

    *-isa

         description: ISA bridge

         product: VT8233 PCI to ISA Bridge

         vendor: VIA Technologies, Inc.

         physical id: 11

         bus info: pci@0000:00:11.0

         version: 00

         width: 32 bits

         clock: 33MHz

         capabilities: isa pm bus_master cap_list

         configuration: latency=0

    *-ide

         description: IDE interface

         product: VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE

         vendor: VIA Technologies, Inc.

         physical id: 11.1

         bus info: pci@0000:00:11.1

         logical name: scsi0

         logical name: scsi1

         version: 06

         width: 32 bits

         clock: 33MHz

         capabilities: ide pm bus_master cap_list emulated

         configuration: driver=pata_via latency=32

         resources: irq:0 ioport:1f0(size=8) ioport:3f6 ioport:170(size=8) ioport:376 ioport:a400(size=16)

       *-disk:0

            description: ATA Disk

            product: WDC WD300AB-00BV

            vendor: Western Digital

            physical id: 0

            bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0

            logical name: /dev/sda

            version: 21.0

            serial: WD-WMA7H1262427

            size: 27GiB (30GB)

            capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos

            configuration: ansiversion=5 signature=00035ef6

          *-volume:0

               description: EXT4 volume

               vendor: Linux

               physical id: 1

               bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0,1

               logical name: /dev/sda1

               version: 1.0

               serial: 5261f911-4f11-450f-b7bc-d52b8f349eb1

               size: 27GiB

               capacity: 27GiB

               capabilities: primary journaled extended_attributes large_files huge_files dir_nlink extents ext4 ext2 initialized

               configuration: created=2012-08-18 04:30:06 filesystem=ext4 lastmountpoint=/target modified=2012-08-18 04:30:12 mounted=2012-08-18 04:30:12 state=clean

          *-volume:1

               description: Extended partition

               physical id: 2

               bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0,2

               logical name: /dev/sda2

               size: 765MiB

               capacity: 765MiB

               capabilities: primary extended partitioned partitioned:extended

             *-logicalvolume

                  description: Linux swap / Solaris partition

                  physical id: 5

                  logical name: /dev/sda5

                  capacity: 765MiB

                  capabilities: nofs

       *-disk:1

            description: SCSI Disk

            product: ZIP 100

            vendor: IOMEGA

            physical id: 1

            bus info: scsi@0:0.1.0

            logical name: /dev/sdb

            version: 14.A

            capabilities: removable

            configuration: ansiversion=5

          *-medium

               physical id: 0

               logical name: /dev/sdb

       *-cdrom:0

            description: DVD writer

            product: DVD RW DRU-530A

            vendor: SONY

            physical id: 2

            bus info: scsi@1:0.0.0

            logical name: /dev/cdrom

            logical name: /dev/cdrw

            logical name: /dev/dvd

            logical name: /dev/dvdrw

            logical name: /dev/sr0

            version: 2.1g

            serial: 3

            capabilities: removable audio cd-r cd-rw dvd dvd-r

            configuration: ansiversion=5 status=nodisc

       *-cdrom:1

            description: DVD reader

            product: CD-RW  CRX320E

            vendor: SONY

            physical id: 3

            bus info: scsi@1:0.1.0

            logical name: /dev/cdrom1

            logical name: /dev/cdrw1

            logical name: /dev/dvd1

            logical name: /dev/sr1

            logical name: /cdrom

            version: NYK5

            capabilities: removable audio cd-r cd-rw dvd

            configuration: ansiversion=5 mount.fstype=iso9660 mount.options=ro,noatime state=mounted status=ready

          *-medium

               physical id: 0

               logical name: /dev/cdrom1

               logical name: /cdrom

               capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos

               configuration: mount.fstype=iso9660 mount.options=ro,noatime signature=66b94095 state=mounted

             *-volume UNCLAIMED

                  description: Hidden HPFS/NTFS partition

                  physical id: 1

                  capacity: 701MiB

                  capabilities: primary bootable hidden

    *-usb:0

         description: USB controller

         product: VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller

         vendor: VIA Technologies, Inc.

         physical id: 11.2

         bus info: pci@0000:00:11.2

         version: 1b

         width: 32 bits

         clock: 33MHz

         capabilities: pm uhci bus_master cap_list

         configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=32

         resources: irq:12 ioport:a800(size=32)

    *-usb:1

         description: USB controller

         product: VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller

         vendor: VIA Technologies, Inc.

         physical id: 11.3

         bus info: pci@0000:00:11.3

         version: 1b

         width: 32 bits

         clock: 33MHz

         capabilities: pm uhci bus_master cap_list

         configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=32

         resources: irq:12 ioport:ac00(size=32)

    *-usb:2

         description: USB controller

         product: VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller

         vendor: VIA Technologies, Inc.

         physical id: 11.4

         bus info: pci@0000:00:11.4

         version: 1b

         width: 32 bits

         clock: 33MHz

         capabilities: pm uhci bus_master cap_list

         configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=32

         resources: irq:12 ioport:b000(size=32)

    *-multimedia

         description: Multimedia audio controller

         product: VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller

         vendor: VIA Technologies, Inc.

         physical id: 11.5

         bus info: pci@0000:00:11.5

         version: 30

         width: 32 bits

         clock: 33MHz

         capabilities: pm cap_list

         configuration: driver=snd_via82xx latency=0

         resources: irq:5 ioport:b400(size=256)

*-network

   description: Wireless interface

   physical id: 1

   bus info: usb@3:2

   logical name: wlan0

   serial: 00:13:46:63:3e:f8

   capabilities: ethernet physical wireless

   configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rt2500usb driverversion=3.2.0-23-generic-pae firmware=N/A ip=10.0.0.4 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg