You can try this simple task. One is to burn the ISO at a slow speed like 10x
and try to reinstall. It all so may be your video card. The internet connection
is not a issue. It will use the internet after the install to DL all updates.

I'll see if I can do that. It is worth a try. It might be
the video card. Unfortunately it is an old SIS board. My mother board
doesn't have any video included with the board. One side point is, I
just installed an old version of Fedora Core 1 on the same computer. It
went on without a hitch.

I have an older Celeron 1ghz machine with
only PCI slots. I have PCLinuxOS on it, but
for some reason, maybe because it's a PCI video
card, it just doesn't automatically load the
way my AGP-machines do. When I installed on
that machine, I had to manually add the driver
per instructions from the Nvidia site, about
exiting out of X, etc.

Works great now, updating the driver through
Synaptic, etc. It does the desktop cube.
But live-cd's won't work on that machine,
except in xvesa or lower graphics mode.

What I have is a hub rather than a router. It basically does what the
router does. All my computers connect to the router. One computer has
the Internet connection via its USB port. Then using Windows Internet
Sharing, the Internet is shared on the LAN for the other computers.
Instead of the Internet feeding the router directly, my Internet
computer feeds the router (hub) instead. Does this make it worse or
better?

I tried what you suggested. It made no difference. After the
cd is booted, I select install. Then there is a little bar that goes
back and forth across the screen. You can see the CD LED blink. I
suspect software is loading. Then, the little bar quits and another bar
is shown. It is a progression bar. It moves across the screen as the
software is read from the CD and the hard drive LED is on indicating
writing the data. The bar gets almost to the end of the box when the
screen goes blank. There is a cursor in the upper left corner of the
screen. Then the video evidently leaves and the screen is completely
blank with the monitor LED blinking indicating it doesn't receive any
video. The CD and the hard drive seems to continue coping. Then all
stops. The keyboard isn't active either. The only thing left that is
recognized is the reset button on the computer. I see no indication
that anything was written to the hard drive. I also think it is strange
that the install doesn't ask for partition input from the user before it
installs. I don't think it has anything to do with the CD creation. I
suspect there is a computability problem. I misspoke before. The video
card is a S3 Trio64 board. I remember somewhere I read that memory
might be a problem. This computer has 256 meg of RAM. Is that a
problem? Even though Fedora seems to load and run, I would rather use
Ubuntu. I sure would like to get it running.

That is a little low on the memory side of things, but should chug along. MMMM
Go and DL the Xubunu, rip it, and see if runs live. After Xubuntu installs, you
can install Gnome very easy on the system with out installing through the CD.
Believe it or not it is a very simple command. The other way is to intall the
Alternative version of Ubuntu. Then install gnome desktop after.

Are you trying to install the 64bit version of Ubuntu? If so.. Don't
with that amount of ram. Use the 32bit version instead.

I'm not sure. It is version 8.04.1. I thought it was the only
one available to download. I'll look again.

You can order a disk for free from Canonical athttps://shipit.ubuntu.com/They
even pay the shipping. Expect to wait a week or two.

I would consider scrapping connection sharing but instead setup the router to do
the work. Connect the modem to the internet and then connect each computer to
the router as a direct connection rather than using connection sharing. The
router then does the work and each computer connects through the router the same
setup

on each (direct). I have had both cable and DSL modems setup this way and it
does not matter whether I am in Windows or Linux. My wife uses her Windows
machine to connect to the router and I use Linux and it just works without any
need for any connection sharing.

It does not matter what the OS, as long as you have a connection it will work
and it works whether you have always on connection or use something like pppoe
where you set it up to connect on demand.

You can order a disk for free from Canonical at
https://shipit.ubuntu.com/https://shipit.ubuntu.com/They even pay
the shipping. Expect to wait a week or two.

I would consider scrapping connection sharing but instead setup the
router to do the work. Connect the modem to the internet and then
connect each computer to the router as a direct connection rather than
using connection sharing. The router then does the work and each
computer connects through the router the same setup

on each (direct). I have had both cable and DSL modems setup this way
and it does not matter whether I am in Windows or Linux. My wife uses
her Windows machine to connect to the router and I use Linux and it
just works without any need for any connection sharing.

It does not matter what the OS, as long as you have a connection it
will work and it works whether you have always on connection or use
something like pppoe where you set it up to connect on demand.

I'm a little confused with your suggestion. I would love to do
exactly what you recommend, but my wireless modem requires a USB
connection. My router will not except that. I'm probably confused.
Maybe you can straighten me out.

Is this your situation?www.practicallynetworked.com/.../usb_modems.htmRoy

that just might work. I'll have to look into it.