Nice black screen [solved]

[BubbaBlues]

I tried f2 during boot Ii never get passed a black screen.  The pointer moves with the mouse but
everything else is just black.

You're right tattoovampire, I should be more patient, but every gig of bandwidth is valuable
to me

I take it you can get to the bootscreen !
If so press TAB
Where it starts with "linux" use arrow keys to get "quiet splash"
and add "nomodeset" without the quotes
press F10 and hope!
Not sure if it is still relevant.
Are you booting from disk or DVD?

I'm booting from dvd. I'll try again right now following your instructions