Hi there, I've just downloaded the mandrake 9.2 ISO Cd's and burn the images to CD. (checksums matched)

Now, when I boot up to start the installation, it just sort of hangs... so I checked the log and the kernel messages and I get:

Log:
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* have to insmod ide-cd
* needs CD-ROM
* needs ide-cd

Kernel Messages
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<4>hdd irq timeout:status=0x51 {DriveReady Seek Complete Error }
<6> hdd irq timeout = 0x60 LastFailedSense0x60
well just a whole list of irq timeouts.....

I'm guessing someones wrong with my cd drives? I tested both my DVD-RW and my CD-RW drives and both act the same. (LiteOn DVD-RW 4x, Acer 16x10x40)

I have those two CD drives on the same ide cable, and two hard drives on another cable, could this be it?

Any help is appreciated, thanks.

Chiko,
something very similar to that happened to me when I was trying to install drake. I tried it with several different downloads and even more discs. Still no good. I would recomend trying another cdrom drive that you may have lying around, or just trying another distro, from what I hear Mandrake is just Red Hat Junior. I would recomend Fedora Core or Libranet if you are a newbie, or Gentoo if you feel confident to try some tougher stuff..... gentoo has excellent online documentation

ah ok, thanks for the tip, will do

Ah fixed the problem, Can't have two CD-ROM's on the same IDE channel.. heh
This also what stopped Lycoris from installing too.