Hallo proma This is not strictlt the solution to problem you mention in email, but is a workaround. If you have the posssibility to boot via USB pen drive you can use the following guide <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LiveUsbPendrivePersistent"> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LiveUsbPendrivePersistent</a> for creating a booting pen drive with the file of live cd of xubuntu. I tried this type of installation for my old laptop that have no cdrom drive and it work well. Attention! I suggest to specified manually the partition during the installation procedure. I follow the automatic procedure the first time, and after the reboot I find a "grub error 18". The second time, I specified manually the partition during the installation procedure and the now I have a fresh installation of xubuntu on my laptop HopeThisHelp <div>2008/1/8, <a href="mailto:promar@juno.com">promar@juno.com</a> <<a href="mailto:promar@juno.com">promar@juno.com</a>>:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi, first off my equipment: fic 503+ motherboard amd KIII 400 MHZ processor 256 meg memory radeon 32 meg apg video card samsung sw232 cd/cdrw maxtor 40 gig drive maxtor 2.0 gig drive I downloaded xubuntu 7.10 and burned the iso image to a cd. Checksums of the file appeared to be ok. checksums of the burned image also appeared to ok. After trying various times to install from the cd, the install sometimes stalls at the point when its burning the kernal, and when that passes through it stall at the point when installing the software portion. I can never get past the software portion, when I do get past the kernal portion of the install. After a few tips in troubleshooting, I came to conclusion that its my cdrom drive that does not respond well during install. So my question is, how can I manage a harddrive install, by invoking the install process via the cdrom image? I have no internet connection where my computer is located. regards _____________________________________________________________ Click now and invest wisely with these mutual fund resources! <a href="http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2111/fc/Ioyw6iigD9CDOxKHOFUbJ4QSoqi8gw5zZLMK0J487CAmT1yGZ72Woa/"> http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2111/fc/Ioyw6iigD9CDOxKHOFUbJ4QSoqi8gw5zZLMK0J487CAmT1yGZ72Woa/</a> -- xubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com </a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div> -- _________________________________________ mail: <a href="mailto:returnCode@gmail.com">returnCode@gmail.com</a> blog: <a href="http://returnCode.wordpress.com">http://returnCode.wordpress.com</a> _________________________________________