Moving to Mandrake forum
Welcome to LQ
Have you checked to make sure the iso's you downloaded (if you did so) were good using Checksums? Have you tried the non-graphical install? When that happens, you can switch to tty2 (I think?) with:
CTRL ALT F2
And see the actual error messages, that will be much more useful when troubleshooting
Finally, if you did download your iso's and didn't get your CD's an alternate way (such as the
www.mandrakestore.com or a retailer) did you burn them to 700MB CDR's or something else? They are larger than 650MB, so that could be one problem right there...
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