Installation Problem

[wee.cloudy]

Hi,

First up, I'm a complete novice when it comes to this stuff but thought installing Ubuntu would be a good idea and pretty straight forward. I got the cd for version 6.06 and tried to install it on my Dad's laptop. The whole thing froze up at about 95% completion so I tried it again and although I got the initial menu the thing doesn't progress any furrther than next message . Windows won't boot up either and the recovery disc for that stops working when it's "creating partition". Is there anything that I can do to fix this, or is the laptop totally gubbed?

Thanks

[nature]

wee.cloudy,
You said the boot up stalls at an initial menu,I presume it is the grub menu.
Can you please post the last message(s) where it gets stalled.
And,you can use a windows cd and boot to rescue mode and do a 'fixmbr'
to get your windows working again (or) you go use a linux cd (recovery mode),to install grub .(do a search on 'how to install grub')
Did you check the media(cd) before installing.might be a problem with the cd itself.
regards

[wee.cloudy]

hi, the last message I get when I try to start ubuntu from the cd is "Uncompressing Linux....Ok, booting the kernel" then I just get a blank screen and nothing happens.
I tried the fixmbr thing but the recovery disc I got with my sony vaio machine won't seem to let me into the recovery console. It goes direct into creating partitions where it gets stuck.

[Pixelsize]

This is Debian forum... Maybe u'll be luckier in getting answers if u post ur Ubuntu problems in the Ubuntu forum. Just saying, cuz around here there are mostly debians even if, I know, more than one has tried many distros... I did but I stay in Debian . Cya!