I hope some one can help me ,i'm about to give up i have been reading for days with no hope of finding my problem , i just got 8.0 downloaded and tryed installing on a Gateway computer , 7.3 run great on this sytem ,so i tred installing 8.0 ,and now when it starts it gets to {init ver 2.84} and just stops, i dont know enough about linux to even start looking for the problem,heres some sys info about the computer
Operating System System Model
Windows XP Professional Service Pack 1 Gateway KADOKA 33333333333333333333333
System Serial Number:
Asset Tag: 4444444444444444444444444444444
Chassis Serial Number: 0023774069
Processor a Main Circuit Board
1000 megahertz AMD Athlon
128 kilobyte primary memory cache
512 kilobyte secondary memory cache Board: 1111111111111111111111111111111 2222222222222222222222222222222 33333333333333333333333
Serial Number: 4444444444444444444444444444444
Bus Clock: 100 megahertz
BIOS: American Megatrends Inc. 0AASNP05 07/23/1999
Drives Memory Modules
15.14 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
5.53 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

LITE-ON LTR-16101B [CD-ROM drive]
MITSUMI CD-ROM FX4831T!A
3.5" format removeable media [Floppy drive]

QUANTUM FIREBALL SE2.1A (2.11 GB) [Hard drive] -- drive 1
QUANTUM FIREBALLlct20 20 (20.42 GB) [Hard drive] -- drive 0 256 Megabytes Installed Memory

Slot 'DIMM1' has 128 MB
Slot 'DIMM2' has 128 MB
Slot 'DIMM3' is Empty
Local Drive Volumes

c: (on drive 0) 5.24 GB 2.23 GB free
d: (on drive 0) 9.90 GB 3.29 GB free

Logins Network Drives
NT AUTHORITY\LOCAL SERVICE
CAROLINA-3EQHH2\Lowgear
NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE

Installed Microsoft Hotfixes Printers
.NETFramework
1.0
S321884 (Microsoft .NET Framework Service Pack 2) on 09/23/02
Windows XP
SP1
Q324720 (details...) on 09/23/02


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Controllers Display
Primary IDE Channel [Controller]
Promise Technology Inc. Ultra IDE Controller
Secondary IDE Channel [Controller]
Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller NVIDIA GeForce2 MX/MX 400 [Display adapter]
Bus Adapters Multimedia
None detected Creative AudioPCI (ES1371,ES1373) (WDM)
Communications Other Devices
56K PCI Voice Modem SF-1156IV R9A
D-Link DFE-530TX+ PCI Adapter
Realtek RTL8139 Family PCI Fast Ethernet NIC - Packet Scheduler Miniport
Network Card MAC Address: 0
Network IP Address: 192.168.0. AMD 756 PCI to USB Open Host Controller
USB Root Hub