Need major help kinds clueless

Ok so first let me start with I need to load a freshly nuked/zeroed hard drive . So with that said there is no windows no partitions , no formatt , I have a old 8.04 / emc live cd that will boot to option scene than dresses and the kitt bar , I have also burned a new 10.04 /emc that boot and then ask to reboot think I have a bad copy but the 5sum thing is correct I might download again . But any help is greatly appeciated . Do I need to get a diffenent Iso to formatt first ?

I guess I could check the cd on my working pc to see if it's the disk . I'll try that tonight

Ok so I guess I can't burn a good ISo , I have the recommended Iso recorder and burned at 1x the slowest possible speed on a standard cheap disk still comes up with errors and or won't boot to the cd . Arrr !!!!!! I have not yet tryed to install a 10.04 from the Ubuntu site then try and add emc2 that seem a bit deeper over my head. Anyone have any other ideas I would hate to just settle with Mach 3 and it's cost

I have a old 8.04 / emc live cd that will boot to option scene than dresses and the kitt bar

I don't think he does have a working 8.04 CD, but I still haven't figured out what this means! (pre-emptive text?)

Do you not know someone else with a computer and CD writer who could download and burn the iso for you?

I could post you one, but it would cost too much from UK, sure someone in US could send you one at cost.

That disk is not working right either it gets to the install screen then when you click to install it freezes in the scrolling bar screen . Sorry about the text I'm working off the iPhone at times and it tries to think for me lol

Hi

I have had a new computer which would not run the 8.04 install disc and an old one which would not run the 10.04 disc, but never one that would not run either.

We don't know what hardware you have, if you want to run something else that will format the HDD and set up an ext2-3 filesystem and then try installing Ubuntu again, over the top, try the Debian Squeeze net-install 486 image.

I have installed it on both a Pentium II 400mHz (ish) and an Intel quad core fire breathing 2.8gHz machine, so it seems to run on anything.

The download is very light (168MB) and it gets the rest from the Debian servers.

I have compiled a RTAI kernel, magma and EMC2 against it, which worked fine, if Ubuntu simply won't run on your machine, but one of the versions should.

regards