Problems installing on ACER travelmate 2301LM

[Tom Rausner]

Hello out there!

I have a mate who want to try out Ubuntu so he gave me an old
ACER travelmate 2301LM and asked me to pour it in there. I started
using the ordinary GUI installation but it got stock after a while.
Then I tried the alternate textbased one. It got stock also but I
could see the problem being the detection of the harddisk. I ripped 
it out and tried to find out what kind it was and the label gave this
info;

SN:	3KW3TGRC
MODEL:	ST94019A
PN:	9Y1422-034
HDA PN:	100314974
CONFIG:	NID-06
FW:	3.05

It also had the marking: Ultra ATA

On the net the native harddisk used in this laptop is refered to as
"Parallel ATA" or "pATA" (never heard of it before)

I think the harddisk is OK (but I'm not 100%).

Does anyone have experience in stuffing Ubuntu into one of them
or does anyone know some usefull info ?... please...