I am new to the world of Ubuntu and Linux. All I
want to do is install Ubuntu onto a laptop computer so I can run my
desktop CNC mill. I anticipated that making the actual connection
from the laptop to the mill was going to be the hard part, but I
haven't gotten that far yet. Ive downloaded a version of Ubuntu made
for CNC work, as I understand. I've burned it to a CD, and have tried
to boot it on the laptop. I even got it to boot all the way once. I
clicked install and the laptop hung up after it asked for my keyboard
configuration. Now when I reboot, sometimes I will get as far as
being able to launch it in a safemode, at other times not. Even in
safemode, I get green lettering above the box that says it's loading
the kernel. Then it powers down. That's all the further I get.

Ive verified the MD5SUM with the site that I loaded it from, and at
this point, really don't know what else to do. That's why I'm here,
pleading :) for suggestions.

The laptop is a HP, 512M and 20G. It's got windows XP on it now, but
I don't care about that. I don't care if I make it a dual boot
machine. Right now, it boots into windows with no problem.

I'm hoping somebody has run across a problem like this before. I did
search the archive before posting, but I didn't see an answer to a
problem like this. I have downloaded and burned the same version, and
I got the same results.

So, that's where I am. I'm tossing it out and hoping somebody has a
better understanding of what is going on then I.