cleaned with cleaning disk - no change. data cable is fine. dma is ON in the BIOS, don't know why it would disable itself for the LIVE CD.
Anyway, I had to get going an installation so I tried the Alternate NON GUI install. worked perfectly. weird. So I guess I don't need anymore assistance. Thank you very much for all your help with this. -- GUI Installer crashed... Ubuntu 6.10 off LiveCD https://launchpad.net/bugs/73058 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs