Linux Questions

[SoK]

I've got round to installing ubuntu 9.04, i made a partition for it, but it gets to 44% and says either my dvd drive or hdd are faulty then stops (i know are working fine), also it hasn't put a boot option at the beginning. I know i've not done something right, but not sure what

It is posssible for the installation iso to be faulty. This has happened to me on more than one occasion. Wait a week or so and download the latest iso.

[watercooled]

Wait a week? Why's that? BTW when you download this iso (or you can check the one you have already) check the md5 to make sure it downloaded properly. MD5s are available on this page and to check you can use something like WinMD5Sum available here or a portable version available here. Alternatively run the disc verifier as suggested earlier.