When I get to the part of formating my hard drive it freezes up on the /boot section...Any suggestions? I reall need help with this it just did it again...this damn thing froze up right in the middle of format /boot....WHY IS IT DOING THIS...NOW I AM FREAKIN MAD.....

I really need someone to help me out with this. I am really frustrated right now. I have not had a working laptop in over a week now. I can't seem to find a distro to work right on my HP dv6000...not even work right...not work at all. Any suggestions to a distro that does work on this particular laptop would be HUGELY APPRECIATED!!!

i need help too

I am just having nothing but issues. I still can't get the GNOME desktop to boot. I had to install with the text version...the GUI froze in the middle of formatting /boot. I have tried many versions of linux...and still have had no working laptop in more than a week...

What is the point of formating a /boot partition in the first place??? If you need to format, get a gparted livecd and do it properly. Then try installing to the already formated partition(s). If that doesn't work, boot the installer with one or more boot arguments. I don't know which are required for your type of machine but noapic and nolapic appear to be long-time laptop favourites.

By the way, kicking your posts - and then within a span of a single minute - is not a way to make yourself popular around here. If you have any second thoughts, use the edit option to rework the original post.

it would help to have some more information about your machine