problems booting into live cd or installing

[mariner8905]

i dont know if it is the image or cd's i keep burning but every time i try to run the live version of ubuntu or even to just install it it errors out on me and says something about sh/bin not being found and some process was terminated. ive checked my image before burning and it looks fine. i use md5sum to check it. but i cant figure out how to check the image once ive burned it... any suggestions?

im running an hp m7060n, pentium 4 3Ghz, 1 gig ram with a 200 and 400 gig hard drives installed and running windows xp media center. any other specs needed just ask. also this is for ubuntu 8.04

[Pumalite]

With an HP, better install with the Alternate CD

[Sef]

With an HP, better install with the Alternate CD

The only tricky part of using a live cd is manually partitioning. It is not hard, but the first time or two can be a bit hard. If you need help with that, then please start a thread on that.