Feisty H2 Alternate and Minimal x86 takes a very long time between hardware detection and DHCP

I'm not sure if it's the same bug but:

I'm trying to install feisty's 20070209 alternate cd onto a core 2 duo on a gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 motherboard. It was probably not 10 minutes but it did take a long time. As far as I could see from running ps in another console it was waiting for udevsettle? At least that was the most recent process.

I had previously encountered bug 81915 and killed and restarted udevd -- perhaps that broke it.

I'm not sure if it's related to this bug.

I just tried to install Xubunutu (also tested it with Kubuntu and same result). The installer did work fine until he started the hardware detection. He starts to hang with a DecChip 5*** (I don't remember the correct number) and with ps I noticed that modprobe had status 'D' and took a lot of CPU. I've killed the process after a hour and had the same problem with some other drivers. Afther the whole process, I could launch xubuntu without any problem. The only thing I noticed was that my soundcard (a Hercules Digifire 7.1) didn't work at all - although the chipset (a circus logic or something) was recognized if I took a look at the available hardware information. I don't know if this is a result of the installer that hang on the hardware detection or is the cause.
I've installed Ubuntu in the past without any problem. I did the install on a old computer, x86 320MB Ram 400Mhz.

Feisty is not supported anymore.

Adam, that's unnecessarily terse and will probably turn bug reporters off bothering to reply. How about "is this still reproducible with later versions of Ubuntu", and *not* closing the bug?

(This isn't something I've ever noticed myself. It could be hardware-specific, although that's sort of weird in Qemu ...)

Closingf the bug because there was no reply for months.