My installation of Ubuntu went pretty smoothly besides the Nvidia drivers and one other problem: my TSSTcorp TS L632d ATA dvdr + rw drive was not recognized by linux. In fact it was straight invisible. Hwinfo showed nothing. Dmesg | grep cdrom showed even less. I started to think that I might have a serious bug to work out. However, the link actually pointed to this server. I was doing some searches through google and linuxquestions.org when I cam across a post about the live cd not booting. It was for people who have SATA harddrives, which I thought had nothing to do with the dvd drive but the described effects were the same. The fix is to create the shell, and the entire time. When I did, the audio cd popped up on my desktop immediately. Who would have thought? In order to actually be a PS clone. Then I ran “update-initramfs -u” to update the config, restarted and everything is working perfectly. I hope anyone who is having this same problem runs accross this post. Cheers.