I just made a cd from the ISo i got from the Ubuntu site but when I try and run off the disk it keeps saying something about something has closed 6 times in the passed 90 seconds and its going to wait 2 minutes. I have an Athlon 64 X2 4600 with a Pata hard drive and an ATI vid card. Any idea's what might be the problem? Thanks
I am at school, otherwise I would have poseted the exact text.
-Oakstaff

Without better information on the precise error messages, it could be anything causing the problem.

Try this:
Run md5sum on the cd you burned, and on the .iso you downloaded. If they are the same, the burn was good (though not necessarily the download). Now compare the md5sum to the sum you find at the site from which you downloaded the .iso. If they are not the same, the download is corrupt. Download it again and check the md5sum before burning to cd. If the md5sums are the same in all three places, there is some other problem, and precise information about the problem is needed.