I have tried to install Ubuntu 8.10 on my PC which is
currently dual booting
Windows XP Home with Windows XP Pro. I have downloaded Ubuntu
8.10-desktop- i386.iso and Ubuntu-8.10- desktop-amd64. iso which I have burnt
to a CD.

Can anybody suggest why the system will successfully boot to either CD and
offer me the language selection then go to the next page where I select
"Install Ubuntu" and then do nothing.

The screen is not frozen as I can access each of the menu items and the
function options, but none of them respond when I press enter.




I have had this problem at varying times and it was solved by re-downloading and
re-burning the CD. It was the case of a bad burn or a download with errors. If
you can, try to re-burn the old ISO to a rewritable CD and if that does not
work, try to download it again.

For reasons like this, I prefer to use a usb key to install Ubuntu, via
Unetbootin. It can run from either Windows or Linux. Unetbootin can either do
the downloading for you or it can work from a previously downloaded ISO file.
Re-writable DVDs or CDs are my tools of second choice. You can burn a CD ISO to
a DVD as long as you select the CD ISO as a DVD ISO at the time you open it, if
you don't have re-writable CDs which are scarce these days.

http://lubi.sourceforge.net/unetbootin.html

Also if your burning programme does checksums it is helpful to do this first.