Acer Aspire 1310: Installation of 8.04 impossible?

[Kristian Rink]

Folks;

being a GNU/Linux user for about twelve years and an Ubuntu user more or
less since 5.10, so far I got used to Ubuntu being pretty
straightforward in being get to work on virtually every hardware.
However, trying to get my old Acer notebook installed with a newer
version (it worked flawlessly on 7.04 for a while but I decided to
eventually want to have a bunch of newer apps on it) so far has proven
to be pretty much unsuccessful. Outcome:

- Using the default Ubuntu installation medium, no matter whether
running the installer off the Live CD or choosing "install" at the boot
prompt, reproducibly locks up at 22% while "copying files" no matter
whether using Ubuntu or Xubuntu 8.04 installation medium.

- Using Xubuntu 8.04 alternate, however, gets me a little closer to the
truth watching what happens. First installation attempt, things lock up
somewhere copying files again (second part of the text-based installer,
next to 34%). Trying this again, watching the installation procedure on
console 4, I see this to happen:

http://zimmer428.net/zeugs/lock-1.jpg

-> "kernel panic - not syncing: attempted to kill the idle task".


- Reading the ACPI related stuff in the dump, I eventually tried booting
using "acpi=off", which made the installation go a little further to
then just stup with this:

http://zimmer428.net/zeugs/lock-2.jpg

-> "kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt".

Well... and I am not sure what to do next. Would another attempt of any
of these media be reasonable on that machine, or should I just revert to
an older or wait for a newer version of Ubuntu? Hints, anyone?

Thanks a bunch in advance, best regards. :)
Kristian