third time's the charm?

so i am tryign to get to the present so i don't gloss over the coming troubles being too lazy to go back and document problems i had already solved. be patient with me i just want to set the stage for my coming frustration (is this the wrong attitude to have on the eve of sucha project?)
Anyway. My fried finally got a replacement motherboard and is continuing (restarting?) hi project to build a mythbox. well he decided to try the ubumtu distro and i was amazed with how smooth his install looked. This will be the perfect opportunity to try linux... again...

So here i am. 6pm on a sunday, sucessfully having installed Ubuntu 6.06. well, successfully as far as it is currently running on my laptop and i am able to get to blogspot to send these posts... lets talk about the install next