Apologies if this has been covered before but I cant find it anywhere.
Whenever I try to boot from the live CD it gets so far and crashes. Usually I get the blue background with the hand/pointer and then it freezes, sometimes the window asking me to choose a language appears, then it freezes.
Occasionally I get a screen dump of text indicating a kernel crash which seems to relate to a problem with the Ethernet driver but thats not very often.
The machine is a Pentium 4 with 1GB RAM. I normally run Linux on it without a problem so I dont think theres a hardware fault. Below is the output from the Linux lspci command listing the hardware components:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82845 845 [Brookdale] Chipset Host Bridge (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82845 845 [Brookdale] Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 12)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801BA ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 12)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801BA IDE U100 Controller (rev 12)
00:1f.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM USB Controller #1 (rev 12)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM SMBus Controller (rev 12)
00:1f.4 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM USB Controller #1 (rev 12)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM AC’97 Audio Controller (rev 12)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV730 Pro AGP [Radeon HD 4600 Series]
01:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc RV710/730 HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 4000 series]
02:00.0 RAID bus controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6421 IDE RAID Controller (rev 50)
02:05.0 Network controller: Ralink corp. RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI
02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM/CA/CAM Ethernet Controller (rev 03)
Its a Microsoft PS/2 keyboard and a MS USB mouse on a PS/2 adapter.
Any ideas whats going wrong? Id really like to get it installed so I can start writing some programs