as far as beginning the installation, which is as far as i have gotten, make sure you are booting from cd or dvd. when it prompts you to choose what to boot from press f8 and type -v. that should let you see what your computer is doing while booting, that way you can get an idea of what is failing. Anyway, when i do that it actually takes me all the way to the installation gui. if you get the "waiting for response from boot deviice" or something like that, restart and try again. so far that is where i am at...