Linux hangs at the message
apm: bios version 1.2 flags 0x03 (driver version 1.16)
then it just goes no further and i waited 12 hours and it wont do anything. I have tried re installing it several times i dont know what to do. I have wasted hours of my life trying to get this to work. Any attempts to help me will be greatly appreciated more than you could ever know. Thank you for your time.

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Welcome to LQ.

Try editing your bootloader config - lilo or grub and add this to the kernel line "noapm" - no quotes.

how do i edit boot loader config do i do this in the install?

first, can you boot your linux all the way up or it just stock at the middle of the process. Are u saying you can't get graphical interface or what?

If it's the issue with graphical interface.
Then press ctrl-alt-F1, after it boots or wait until it gradually stops.
Then
login$
password$

Which boot loader do you have?
if you have grub here is the instruction
$cat /etc/grub.conf # to display your boot loader, make sure it's here
$vi /etc/grub.conf # to open editor, after you hit enter, a screen will appear and for the very first line without an # as the first charactor in that row.
You should change 5 to 3.
Then that should be good to start a terminal.

I use lilo but I'll change to grub to make things easier.

You can do it with either bootloader after install - both have options to edit kernel options each time you boot - then after a successful boot you can add it to your config to make it permenant.