Boot process freezes on laptop

about an hour and it didn't move.  I tried to boot on an old 233 mhz machine and it worked just fine. I am inexperienced with linux, if you could please help me I would greatly appreciated.   Thanks, Charles Janik

problem with rsync

Hi,   I just downloaded the ftp part of the debian image onto my DOS/Windows computer. I am ready to convert it to the official image, but when I run rsync, I get a message that says   failed to connect to rsync.kernel.org - The descriptor is a file, not a  socket.   The 2 server addresses th