Installation question

[Spleeny]

Hello all,

I am a total noob at this. I've got the xubuntu-7.10-desktop-i386 iso burned and it boots fine on my Toshiba A105-S2061 laptop. (There's no sound and no wireless, but I would figure I could work with that once I had it installed.)

The problem is that I can't get it installed in the first place - I click the Install button, and the installation goes fine until it gets to 15% at the "Installing system" window, during the "Detecting file systems..." stage. Any clue why?

Thanks in advance for any help!

[Rocket2DMn]

Sounds like it's not picking up your hard drive. However, you should install the latest version of Xubuntu, 8.04 Hardy Heron - http://xubuntu.org/get
Before you burn the disc, check the md5sum, then burn at a slow speed like 4x to help prevent write errors
HowTo md5sum (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToMD5SUM)
To find the hash to check the md5sum against for Xubuntu, you need to check the file called MD5SUMS which is available at the mirror you download from ( ex: http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/ubuntu-iso/CDs-Xubuntu/8.04/release/ )
Xubuntu hashes are not posted on the Ubuntu Hashes page.

[Spleeny]

Excellent, I'll try that. Thanks for the quick response!