it won't install ubuntu 8.10, it just goes to a prompt of ubuntu@ubuntu or something like that and i am prompted to type a comman in DOS format, i thought that it would send me to a desktop screen

i tried following all theintructions, and it seemed to work fine, but hte print screens that you showed me on the site for help in in stalling are different from the screens that i had, so i still have no idea what to do, i wasn't prepared for this one

Please reboot your pc and starting with Ubuntu live cd,
please try to put some common Ubuntu kernel live cd options you can find the boot options howto here:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootOptions

Remove the "splash" and "quiet" options to see more boot infos message and/or errors.

Then try some commons parameters by putting them one by one or together:
noacpi nolapic noapic noapm nodma all_generic_ide pnpbios=off pci=noacpi

i tried everything, i got rid of the quiet splash and it showed that everything was pretty much ok, and then i added on everything that you gave me, all like 7 of them, the" noacpi noolapic..... nothing worked. i still get the same screen and i can't get to the desktop,
i have the ubuntu 8.10 desktop edtion, my friend has it on his, and it is totally sweet, i just don't know what to do when this kinda screen comes up

"to access official ubuntu documention, please visit:http://help.ubuntu.com/
to run a comman as administrator (user "root"), use "sudo <command>".
see "man sudo_root" for details.

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ _ "

this is what i always get no matter what option of configuration i tried,, is there a step by step process that you can tell me that can help me..... i usually just put in the cd and say to run as demo and then to boot from cd.... then itstores some information and it reboots..... then i make it start from my hard drive and it brings me to the menu where i can choose to install it or run it,... i also tried running it directly from the cd, and it brought me to the same menu... is there really any difference or what exactly should i do, and how do i know which preferences i should use as far as "noacpi... " and the other 6 you gave me when i change the command code for booting up ubuntu in the menu....
sorry for being so complicated and long, but i am so lost and i can't find info anywhere

Hi

Is that an Asus eeePc? If so there are various known issue so a special edition of Ubuntu has been created that you may have a lot more success with. I'm assuming you don't have any data to protect so i wont bore you with how to do that but here's the link to eeebuntu
http://www.eeebuntu.org/

Good luck with this and let us know how you get on (or if you have data on the drive then let us know and we'll try to help protect that for ou)
Regards from
Tom :)

If you are still having trouble with this then please post it as a new question. Only the most recent questions tend to get looked at so posting/reposting a question just before america arrives online gives the best chance of getting a good few answers.

If the problem has been resolved then please follow the link to the forum thread and mark it as Solved.

Good luck and many regards from
Tom :)