Have you tried 8.04? i had a problem with 8.10 and 8.04 would load and not
8.10. One of the things is ,it don't like ATI video. Nvidia works ok. The other
thing I had a problem with,was the CD drive . Had to change around some till I
got one that would work. Newest isn't always the one, either. Think I ended up
with a straight CD dri\ve,not a burner. I talked to dave W1HKJ on this and he
thoughtit had to do with the drivers that were installed.Hope this helps you.

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.

I have recently installed Ubuntu 8.10 on a new Toshiba laptop. I
first tried using 8.04 that I obtained from a book I purchased with no
luck. Like your post indicates, I went through the language setting
and such and then nothing!. I found that if I could not run from the
live CD then I had no hope of installation. With 8.10, I made sure I
could run from live CD which has an option to install. I would make
sure that the linux runs from the CD. I found different live CD
versions worked on some computers but not others.

Some people have found burning at a lower speed to be helpful, too.

I found that the only way I could install Ubuntu on my old 2002 laptop was
to use Wubi.exe. It wouldn't boot from a flash drive and the installations
from CD/DVD would never complete. Wubi itself is an download on the Ubuntu
download page. It in turn downloaded the data from the net and it completed
the install for me, for the first time.