This may not belong here, if not then just move the thread, but please PM where I can find it.

I have for a long time wished to switch from Windows to Linux, but I have been unable to do so because my old PC only had one partition and lots of valuable files. Not a long time ago I orderd a new PC and I decided that I would run Linux together with Windows (a small 50 gig partition for the files I wan't to keep and games I can't run with Cedega etc), but I have run into some problems. First off: I wanted to run the newest Mandrake, but I can't seem to find the newest version for a 64-bit system. Secondly: When I couldn't find Mandrake I decided on using SUSE, but I am expiriencing some problems with the installation.



SUSE (Evaluation version) 10.0 64-bit


When I start the installation of SUSE it looks like its checking my hardware (#1) (a icon of a disc, a kyeboard, something that looks like a card module and a workstation with a monitor appears). When it comes to the card module I get a error message saying error and something moore. I then get too the next screen where I get the some setting options and some installation options (Start Installation or upgrade (or something similiar)). When I start the Installtion (I choose CD as the media (I got suse on a DVD)) it checs the DVD rom and then goes into a black screen (#2) (with the a blue bar in the bottom) and nothing moore happends.

My problem is that the installtion stalls out (stopps) at several points

Some specs:
1 Gig unformatted Partition

System specs:
Crucial PC3200 DDR-DIMM 1024MB CL3 5ns
Unbuffered, Non-parity, 2.5V,128Meg x 64 (Memory)

Abit Fatal1ty AN8 SLI,nForce4 SLI,Socket
-939,ATX,S-ATA,GbLAN,Firewire,PCI-Ex16 (Mother Board)

AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ 2.0GHz Socket 939
1MB, BOXED m/vifte (CPU)

Samsung SpinPoint P120S 250GB SATA2
8MB 7200RPM NCQ (Hard Drive)(I only use one ATM)

XFX GeForce 7800GT 256MB GDDR3 eXtreme,
PCI-Express, Dual-DVI, VIVO, 450MHz (GPU - graphic card)

If you got any tips, or even better, soloutions, etc for me I would greatly appreciate it.

The most likely thing is that the DVD you burned didn't burn correctly - did you use the Media Check facility before installation to verify the DVD?

Secondly, this could be a bad RAM problem, so have you run the Memory test (Memtest), which should be listed as an option of the first menu of the DVD?