Your help has been greatly appreciated. As you can see by the above posts the problem was with the burning of the CD. I am in the install process now and so far it is working well. I'm sure to have more questions and maybe some day I will be able to answer some!

Thanks again.

Richard

here you go- here's a link:

http://mrbass.org/linux/ubuntu/install/

hope this helps.

titanium_geek