Mike:
            I'm happy that you have a new machine but you don't tell us what kind of machine is.  It is a laptop, a netbook, a PC?  What amount of RAM?  Which processors?   Exactly, how did you install and what errors you had?  Do you know about live CD / USB that lets you try the Operative System before install it?
Things like that are very useful.  If you don't give us data we can't help you.



Kind regards,
Lailah