Is that just for booting the live cd to the desktop (which I can do).

I have been trying all night (again) to install 7.04 on my Compaq
laptop with no luck, takes over an hour to go through each screen
whilst installing.
I can't believe it, I just put it into my wife's IBM and it booted no
problem and started to install no problem, I got right up to the
partitioning bit then stopped as my wife does not want it on yet until
I've tested it, there must be a fix of some sort to get it to load on
any PC with the minimum spec, or have all us MS guys been spoilt with XP?