First of all, I am very new at Linux. I just wanted to give it a shot, so I downloaded Mandrakemove. When I boot from the CD, I get a screen that says press enter to continue. It decompresses, loads three parts, then says it is processing. When it's done I get a blank blue screen. What do I have to do to get off of it?

I have a PIII 900 MHz processor 384MB of RAM, and WinME.

If this is a really dumb question, I apologize but, again, I am brand new at Linux.

Thanks in advance.

Hi. I'm a new user myself, and I was having the same problem as you,
here are some possible solutions:

First, we need to make sure that the ISO image file that you downloaded is not corrupted, we do this by using "md5".

From the md5 "readme" file: "When you perform an md5 check, you are comparing the fingerprint from the files you downloaded to the fingerprint of the files on the server you downloaded from. If the md5's (fingerprints) match, you have an uncorrupted file."

Step 1:

Go to the same (yes, it has to be the same) FTP server where you got your "MandrakeMove-i586.iso" file and download "move.md5sum.asc".
Open this file with notepad and it should have something like this:

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

8f7970b4960dff5e7825deeb8a515ee3 MandrakeMove-i586.iso
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQE//D6k54mK4HB3H/MRAtbfAJ4orP+uWngFaWPxIERJtxO9TexrTwCdFPWd
mdy3+ZF3zxyHEEunIj7npbk=
=jtzJ
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----


The only thing you need is the line that reads:

"8f7970b4960dff5e7825deeb8a515ee3 MandrakeMove-i586.iso"


Step 2:

Download md5sum.exe from etree
Copy the file to c:\windows\command. Open an MS-DOS window and "cd" to the directory where you downloaded "MandrakeMove-i586.iso" and type:

"md5sum MandrakeMove-i586.iso > MandrakeMove-i586.txt"

(without the quotes) this step will take some time...

Step 3:

You should now have a file called "MandrakeMove-i586.txt" in the same directory where "MandrakeMove-i586.iso" is located, open "MandrakeMove-i586.txt" and the information inside (md5 check) should match the one in "move.md5sum.asc" if it doesn't match, then you need to re-download "MandrakeMove-i586.iso", and burn it again.

Second, if the md5 sums match, then you will need to burn the CD once more, this time burn it at a slower speed such as 4x, and use a high quality / high capacy CDR 700MB+ (not a CDRW! I had problems with CDRW media and Mandrake Move).

Third, if after doing all of this, the CD still won't boot then it is possible that you might have an incompatible device in your PC, check Mandrake Move's Errata page and the Hardware Compatibility page and follow the instructions there.

Hopefully this will solve your problem, and you can start using Mandrake Linux full time. I wish I didn't scare you way with this long solution.

Thanks for taking the time to reply. The file isn't corrupted. I can't find any hardware that isn't compatible from the lsit. I burned at 8x speed (the fastest it can go). I will download and burn it again. You never know...

What error messages are you getting?

If you have a command line try typing in startx

Don't know never used it before but it loks like i'm going to have to now.

Yeah, I'm not really getting an error message. Just a blank blue screen. I re-downloaded and re-burned and got the same thing. I tried on a different computer and I got a fatal error message (not the blue screen). I got Phlank to boot of a CD without a problem.