I have been unable to install 8.04. The install either stops at step 4 0f 7 during the cd install or if I try to do an on-line upgrade the system drops into a terminal window 'initiramfs" and stays there. Using an AMD athlon 64 set-up with 2 gb of ram. Same issues whether I try an 64 bit install or a 32 bit install.R.L.Hogan

well in my case, it looks during the install that everything was completed. i got intel celeron m. but when i turn on the computer is not going to gui, it only stays on shell waiting for camands, i dont know if is because i got a server edition cd. i dont thnk so. but that is as far as i can get with ubuntu 8.04.

I installed Ubuntu 8.04 on my Acer Aspire 3003LCi laptop.  I found that wireless and suspend/hibernate works better than previous versions of Ubuntu.  However, I have had issues on Hardy which I didn't have on previous versions.  Things like getting Wine/Crossover to install Quicken 2002, changes in how smbfs works, and network printing.  I actually had printing work for a short time, and then some update killed it.  So things aren't perfect for me, just a different set of problems to resolve.

why use quicken??  there are plenty of open source alternatives.

try the alternate install cd

Believe me when I tell you that I have tried everything the open source community has available to replace Quicken.  Nothing comes close for the records I have and the features I use.  I have records going back to 1977 for stock purchases and corresponding dividend reinvestments.  Trying to import into gnucash had everything a complete mess.  My data choked-to-death Kapital, KMyMoney, and MoneyDance.  So I am kinda stuck with Quicken.  And to be honest, running Quicken under CrossOver has never crashed and never let me down, so why change.  That combination has worked without incident for over 4 years.  Anyway, I can't help it that Hardy Heron has implemented stuff which is breaking old ways of doing things left and right.  I'm still pissed that I can't get printing to my print server working.

makes sense.  have you looked on sourceforge.net? 

I have had no issues on install except for my wireless card not working which I discovered is simply not supported by the Linux kernel. any program I used to use on windows that actually mattered I have found an open source version or Linux port for. My only problem is that I cant find an easy way to view shockwave content on Linux without going to wine and therefore windows software. If anyone knows hwo to do this without wine that would be awesome. Just P.M. me.

try sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop in the shell --or get a regular edition cd (not server) and install from that