Hi all

I am trying to get mandrake 8.2 to work on my pc. I have 2 hard drives
the master has windows xp installed and that runs fine, the slave i
installed mandrake 8.2.

Everything seemed fine until i tried to reboot, i get so far and when
the desktop loads i just get colourful lines on my monitor and it
freezes. I believe it installed correctly i just cant use it. This
happened several times, so i thought it was Mandrake so i started from
scratch and tried to install Red hat. The same thing happened
installing it was fine but when i try to reboot i see I/2 of the kde
desktop enviroment and the top of the screen has very colourful lines,
and yet again the machine freezes.

I have a sony Hs53/L flat screen minoutor and my graphics card is ATI
Radeon 7000. There is also an onboard Matrox graphics card, which
during the install i did not configure. I have that card disable in
Windows XP.


Ok i just started yet again from scratch and this time i get a text login screen which last for 2 secs (i dont get a chance to type in anything) and then nothing, well not nothing this time half my screen is full of penguins and the top half is colourful lines.

I am very new to linux, so if there is a simple answer to this i apologize, but i have been trying to do this for 2 days and it is driving me crazy

Thanks for any help you can give me

Thanks Sue

8.2? is there any particular reason for you using 8.2? you might want to go for 9.1 it may solve the problem even

hi

Ok i downloaded Mandrake 9.2 and created the cd from the iso image. Popped in the cd and booted up, after it checks my usb devices it brings up a screen that says there is a hardware failure or a kernel bug.

At least with 8.2 i got it installed.

Sue

9.2 is a beta. 9.1 is a stable release - trying out a beta distribution is not a good idea, trying 9.1 is.