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Hi everyone. Since Arch Linux isn't really suited to someone new to Linux my dad has downloaded the latest version of Ubuntu (7.04). About 3 hours ago he booted the CD. After quite a long time (30mins to an hour) it had finished loading gnome. Knoppix doesn't take more than a couple of minutes at most, so what was Ubuntu doing to take that long to boot? Right near the end there was one error about not being able to find a gnome panel applet, but I don't think it was a problem. Anyway, we clicked the install icon on the desktop, and it's been chugging away on the hdd and cd drive for 2 hours or more now and still hasn't finished. The screen blanked out for powersave, but I can't get it back now. The install is still going though. WHAT IN THE WORLD IS IT DOING!?!?!?! It's a fairly old laptop- less than 1Ghz I think, and the CD drive probably isn't too fast, but none the less- it shouldn't take anything like this long. Also, is it ever going to ask me questions about where to install it or anything? If not, where is it installing itself? Thanks Simon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html