I'm having the exact same problem with my install of Mardrake 10. I bought a new computer and was going to have a dual boot of Windows XP and Linux.
I installed windows and using partition magic I set aside 8Gb for linux. Went to install, waited 4 hours for the program to load to memory only for it to crash after the select language screen, then found out about noapic (using a Asrock K7S8X Mobo). Entered "linux noapic nolapic" at the command and it loads the DrakX installer. I have tried about 8 times to install it it but no good. Furthest I got was the post install configuration then it crashed.
Now when I try to do it, it gets to between 4 and 8 minutes and then hangs completely. I have tried lots of commands at the pre boot command line thing. Such as linuxmem=512MB, ide=nodma, acpi=off, but nothing seems to work. Always crashes at some point during the package install.
The last two times I have tried it won't load the DrakX installer and I get the error message
"exited abnormally :-( signal 11
termination signals......
kill signals.....
unmounting filesystem..... etc...
Don't have a clue what to do now. I've looked at lots of different forum and tried everything people have suggst to people with similar problems to me but none seem to help.
YOU ARE MY LAST HOPE......... PLEASE HELP ME!!!!!!!!!!
btw sys specs
Athlon XP2800+
Asrock K7S8X
512M DDR Ram (333MHz)
Geforce FX5200 128Mb
80Gb HDD
MSI 52x32x52 CDRW
16x DVD ROM (slave)