Installion Problem

[manoon]

Hi Guys

I have and IBM Laptop with 40G hardrive. There is not OS on the laptop, I want to put Ubuntu 8.04 as a primary OS. For some reason i can't get the intallion to work. please tell me what am I doing wrong. Here is what I do.
I boot from Ubuntu CD and select install everything goes fine untill it get to the point where i have to select the timezone and partation. Then it become very slow and it keep freezing. please help me

[cpetercarter]

How much RAM does the computer have?

[Kevbert]

If it has less than 384Mb then you want to try the alternate (http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download) (text based) install. Click on the alternate box before downloading.
The best version of Ubuntu for PCs with lower resources is Xubuntu which you can get from here (http://cdimages.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/hardy/release/)