I reburned the disc after the first time.
I'll redownload Ubuntu and try then as I have no idea what you mean by md5-sum.

Here are some screenshots.
Ijust downloaded t& installed
screenshot 1. I made it default isoburner

2.should be #3. shows where you select from
3. shows where you should choose what tyoe of operation, which yours shoud be to burn iso image

Sorry I can't get images uploaded from here. maybe I can send them to another machine.

Thank you Markush. Redownloading seemed to fix the mounting issue. it is *technically* installed.
I say technically because all I need to do is account info.
http://i452.photobucket.com/albums/q...n/DSC03344.jpg
That is a picture of the screen I'm on. No matter the password, it still grays out the forward button.
Am I doing something wrong? Is there a specific password syntax? An override?
I can set up the account after it's installed.

it seems you have a conflict there. You give a password and have choosed "log automatically". I think if you want to use a password, you'll have to choose "require my password to login".

Markus

I have tried both.
It was to show I have tried skipping the password as well as using a password.

Your problem here is that you have a capital letter in your user-name. I don't know why the installer doesn't complain about this instead of just disabling the forward button. Use a user-name with all lower-case letters and it should work.

Thank you.
That is by far, the stupidest thing EVER. (Aside from Apple's business practices)

TobiSGD, :doh: thanks, I didn't see that.

Markus

I had the same issue installing to Virtual Box it happens when you give weak password then go back to make a stronger 1.
It really wants you to input some numbers in password. The trick is not to take too long making up a password, while it's in process of copying files & try to move to re-enter password on next line until installer is happy.

Alright.
So it is fully installed and powers on, but as I expected, Ubuntu is too robust for this computer.
It's a Dell Dimension 3000 (stock).
Did you know they don't have graphics cards? O_o So plugging in the stock card from my good comp is out.

Based on this, can anyone recommend a less-heavy distro?

No distro will compensate for a lack of graphics card, unfortunately.

I googled your system specs and see that the Dimension 3000 is a 2.8ghz Pentium 4... Linux should fly on a system that fast! :)

Anyways, if you want to give your system a little boost, you could try installing a lightweight desktop environment like LXDE (with "sudo apt-get install lxde" then log out and choose it from Sessions on the login screen) but again if you are having trouble with the graphics card, that is not really a distro-specific problem.

The stock Dimension 3000 came with Ram sizes between 128Mb up to 1 GB, that is a to wide range to actually recommend you a distro. If we would know how much RAM you really have it would be very helpful.

The graphics card isn't a physical card. This is a photo of the inside. What you are seeing is directly behind the plugs. That pink thing is the VGA plug.
http://i452.photobucket.com/albums/q...n/DSC03351.jpg
http://i452.photobucket.com/albums/q...n/DSC03350.jpg

I took some little test on which distro to use (first result for "linux distro chooser") and it recommended OpenSUSE. How would these compare?

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After popping off the case, it has two sticks of 256MB RAM, so 512MB.



EDIT:: LXDE download links are broken.

A P4 with 512 should be cruising along nicely with virutally any distro. What EXACTLY are you running and why do you think it is too slow?

I'd recommend to boot with any live-CD, like Slax for example and post the output of for the Ram and for the other hardware.

Markus