I love linux and ive been using it on my old computer for a while. I got a new computer adn now there is problems. I put the 10.1 disk in on my computer. I got the 64 buit edition and a 64 bit CPU from AMD and I fill in all the stuff adn it goes to partitions.

I have a small windows partition and I want to set on up for linux. I went to teh coustom partition and I have my windows partiton and another large blank one. When I try to use that part I go click on it and set it as a linux natice and the other thing thats like / /boot /home I put that as / then It says formatting partiton then it restarts my computer then I ahve to do that over again and it repets what am I doing wrong? And How do I set it up?

It should not normally reboot your computer at this point, if I remember correctly.

Did you download the CDs from the web and burn them? If so, then this sort of error is typically caused by a badly burnt CD, so you might want to try burning them again (and/or verifying that the data burnt was not corrupted, if you can).

If you can't get it past this stage, then I suggest letting it partition the disk for you, using the free space. Alternatively, you can partition your disk using gnuparted (search for it on freshmeat.net; you can download a floppy disk image to boot off and start gnuparted).

You could also try the other boot modes on the disk; one likely option is needing to turn off DMA on your CD drive (because some drives don't support it properly).

I tried useing the free spave it says formatting HDA 7 and it says that for two days ive left it for that long. But if it is teh cds I will try my normal versoin of mandrake and not the 64.

You can get more information about what it's doing (trace and error messages) by using ctrl+alt+F1, ctrl+alt+f2 etc. Alt+F7 will get you back to the GUI installer (assuming that you're using the GUI).