Hi

I've downloaded 10.1 and burned ISO DVD and tried installing on a Compaq PIII dual Xeon by pressing F1 and typing in any one of the option and this is what happens;

loading alt0......
loading alt0/all.rdz.....isoLinux: Disk error 04, AX = 4200, drive 9F

Boot Failed: press any key to retry.

Where should I start looking to find the problem?

Try 10.2 aka mandriva 2005 LE instead
Check your iso has been downloaded correctly and burnt correctly
Are you sure your hardware is fine?

Hi Emmanuel_uk

Was the DVD drive.

Insightfull question... from the other side of the world
Sorry to hear that.

Anyway coming back to mandy 2005 LE: it is much better and more stable
than 10.1, for example it handles usb pen drive nicely.
Do not even bother with 10.1 (which is OK, I run 1 PC on it) unless
you are desperate to install something now!(R)

Hi Emmanuel_uk

Yes, I find it fasinating that distance is not a barrier to comminicating in these forums.

I'm setting up a rendering cluster to encode AVI to MPEG2? (DVD compiant) and have settled on Oscar (at this point I'm still an out of the box UNIX person.) as the cluster manager and it requires, amoung others, 10.1 (10,0 had a problem with Open SSH).

I have limited experience with Mandrake . . sorry, Mandriva/Samba. Though, If you, or anyone else, have a better solution, I'm certianly willing to learn something new. Maybe I should say, ask more question here

Have heard good thing about oscar. Probably a good first port of call indeed.
Otherwise parallel Knoppix, and some other I cannot think of their names
mpeg2 correct. You will find out that it takes a little bit more
about making mpeg2 dvd compliant (something about padding?)
Anyway not all mpeg2 are equal, just 1 tweak sometimes needed

Good luck