Downloaded and burned the CD. Same problem. Tried accepting the configuration as-proposed so that it would never get to the "Evaluating package selection" part of the install. It started, but never completed, the formatting of the installation partition.

It's installing now, but the only way I could get it to happen was by doing an "update" to my 10.2 installation.. Very weird. No such problems with 10.1 or 10.2 on this laptop. Tried but failed at making a bugzilla report.