Ok, so a strange thing happened. It turned out that I hadn't checked the integrity of the discs (it was late!). The DVD was fine, but still hung at the same place; the CD had an error on it so I burned a new copy. This also stopped at the same series of error messages. I had to split the screen shot into 3 so I could get the focus on the text- I've attached shot 1 here and the other 2 will follow in add-on messages Anyway, so it sat there and I decided to try ctrl-alt-F2 (had to do this on a xubuntu install to kill a process for installing japanese dictionary) and the system took me to the terminal, beeped, and continued to boot up! So I managed to get to the desktop - though there was an error about being unable to start HAL waiting for me. From there I could have a poke about - but unfortunately couldn't get online, since my wireless card wasn't detected (Edgy does it fine - its an inbuilt one, so not a USB extra or anything) - although 'lo' was reporting sending and recieving packages (strange since my system is encrypted, so maybe it was using a neighbours?). Also, couldn't get in to set up my network since it was telling me that I didn't have permission to configure system settings. And cicking the hardware box in the control centre just flashed the box up really quickly before killing it again. So - a strange experience. Here's shot 1 anyway.
** Attachment added: "screen picture 1" http://librarian.launchpad.net/6255263/00001.jpg -- Feisty herd 3 doesn't boot from Live CD https://launchpad.net/bugs/83420 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
