hello

Actually I am planning to install linux in to my Home pc.
I got a "Mandrake Linux".
While install in a normal mode in few moments my computer got hangup. Then I went the the help mode all I tried all the option. All the option in the help mode shows the following error.

Presently I am using the Microsoft Windows 7
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boot : linux
loading alt o
loading alt o/all.rdz......isolinux: disk error 80, AX=4280,drive9F

boot failed: press a key to retry

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My system config is as follows

Computer : ACPIX86 based PC
Diskdrives: ST500DM002-1BD142 ATA device
Display adapter: Nvidia Geforce8400GS
DVD/CD Romes drive: HL-DT-ST-DVDRAM GH22NS50ATA Device
IDE ATA/ATAT Controller
: ATA Channel0
: ATA Channel1
: Intel(R)N10/ICH7 family serial ATA storage
controller27CO
Keyboard : HID Keyboard device
Mice : HID compliant mouse
Monitor : Generic PnP monitor
Network adapter : REaltek RTL 8139/810x family ethernet NIC
Port :Comumminication port -com1
communication port - com2
ECP port(LPT)
Processor : Pentium(R)dual core CPU E5500@2.80Ghz
Pentium(R)dual core CPU E5500@2.80Ghz

Ram: 2 GB
Hard disk capacity : Partition B : 6.34GB
Partition C : 48.7 GB (Windows 7 OS)
Partition D : 48.8 GB
Partition E : 48.8 GB
Partition F : 48.8 GB
Partition G : 34.1 GB
Partition H K 49.8 GB
Un Partition portion (freespace - 180.11 GB

Kindly help how install the Linux in to my system

Regards
M.RENGANATHAN

Mandrake is very old and outdated. I'd suggest using a more modern distro...

mandrake > mandriva = Discontinued

I agree with the others that a more modern distro is desirable. However, there are 9 partitions on the hard drive, so I suspect a partitioning problem is the immediate cause of the difficulties. Do you want to wipe the drive clean or dual boot with Windows 7? IMO there are fewer problems with a dual boot installation if the partitions are manually set up the way you want them instead of depending on the installation program.

Many linux distributions come with gparted for editing partitions. I did a web search for a gparted tutorial and found http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/gparted.html. Wish I'd had a tutorial when I first used gparted.

By the way, I hope you have backed up your data already.

Good luck.

if this install CD is really Mandrake then is is PRE 2005

and might be as old as 1998

please use a modern operating system