hey. im new to mandrake (and linux) and need a little help.

i have Mandrake 10 and im trying to install it on my test PC.

computer has this inside it:

AMD-K6 III 450MHz
128Mb RAM
3Gb Hard Disk Drive
50x ATAPI CD-ROM Drive
MATROX 4Mb PCI Graphics Card

it does meet the minimul requirements.

the problem:

i set it up to boot from a boot floppy and it gives this error:
only problem is we only have 1 disk for it to boot from

when i set it to load from CD:
it loads fine. to where you press F1 or ENTER.

Press ENTER - the little bar moves across. screen goes black and it stops. it doesnt do anything.

Press F1 - i have triecd typing both of these in and neither help.

can anyone help me please. i really want to try mandrake.

thanks in advance

if you need any extra info. just ask and i will try and get it for you

EDIT--

was told by trackrat to try and do the 'text' thing through the F1 option. and i did.

here are the last 10 lines that it shows on the screen before it stops:

i hope someone can help me

Why have you tried typing noapic & nolapic, these are concerned with power management?.
Have you tried a text install to see where it fails.

I had the same thing happen, booted the cd, press enter and..."hang". I'm a little boneheaded though and just kept trying and it worked on the third or fourth try. I did try the options menu on the second attempt and used the "linux" install option, but that hung as well, then I tried the enter option twice more and bang, it worked.
I know that's really vague, but I didnt change anything. No bios, no -switches, nada. Hope it works for ya one way or another.

-Arch

i did a search on here for help before i posted and it said bout them. i think i read it wrong.

how do i find out how to do a text install? im a to all this

ive tried to install it about 5 times. sometimes leaving it a few mins. sometimes leaving it the rest of the day. it never works for me

DOH, I did change something.....

I had a usb joystick plugged in. When I pulled that sucker out it worked, I'm sure of it. I remember thinking to myself that both the mouse and keyboard were also usb, but that pulling those out as well wouldn't get me very far, but just removing that joystick worked like a charm.

Got any peripherals you can gank out?

-arch

Just for information to get a text install press F1 at the first screen then go to the bottom of the screen where it says boot: with a flashing cursor, type text and press enter.

done that. and here are the last 10 lines that it shows on the screen before it stops:

thanks for the help so far im new to linux and mandrake

I am not experienced enough to sort this problem out, what I suggest you do is to repeat your origonal post with the last ten lines of the text install so someone with more expertise can help.

do you mean put the 10lines of text in my first post? ill do that now

Checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (no cpio magic); looks like an initrd
Freeing initrd memory: 2896k freed
CPU: L1 I Cache: 32K (32 bytes/line), D cache 32K (32 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 256K (32 bytes/line)
CPU: AMD-K6(tm) 3D+ Processing stepping 01
Checking 'hit' instruction... double fault, gdt at c0242960 [255 bytes]
double fault, tss at c025c800
eip = 00000000, esp = c0261f80
eax = c0261fac, ebx = 000598000, ecx = 00000000, edx = 000007b
esi = 00000000, edi = 00000000
These are the last 10 lines of a failed mandrake 10 instillation can anyone help Subliminal so he can install it.