distro error

Hello,

I hope someone here can help me or point me in the right direction. I bought a copy of "Beginning Ubuntu Linux" third edition, an apress book, that came with a dvd with install files for ubuntu. I have an Acer Aspire One with 1G or ram and a 120 G hard drive running XP. I also have a USB dvd drive that seems to work fine. The first step I tried to do from the book was run ubuntu from the dvd in what they call distro mode. Ubuntu does boot up but the GUI fails to load and I get the following error from in the screen:
udevd-event[1498]: run_program '/sbin/modprobe' abnormal exit
I have tried to run in the safe graphics mode with the same results. The disk indicates this is version 8.04.
When the GUI fails to load I do seem to have a fully functional command line interface.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

--Gordon

 

Maybe there are some faults on the disk. You could download the intrepid iso if you like and try with that one. I've had similar problems with corrupted cd-roms.
To be more sure you can check the md5sum of the iso file after downloading.