MandrivaThis Forum is for the discussion of Mandriva (Mandrake) Linux.
Notices
Welcome to LinuxQuestions.org, a friendly and active Linux Community.
You are currently viewing LQ as a guest. By joining our community you will have the ability to post topics, receive our newsletter, use the advanced search, subscribe to threads and access many other special features. Registration is quick, simple and absolutely free. Join our community today!
Note that registered members see fewer ads, and ContentLink is completely disabled once you log in.
If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, please contact us. If you need to reset your password, click here.
Having a problem logging in? Please visit this page to clear all LQ-related cookies.
Get a virtual cloud desktop with the Linux distro that you want in less than five minutes with Shells! With over 10 pre-installed distros to choose from, the worry-free installation life is here! Whether you are a digital nomad or just looking for flexibility, Shells can put your Linux machine on the device that you want to use.
Exclusive for LQ members, get up to 45% off per month. Click here for more info.
I downloaded the latest mandrake move yesterday and burned the ISO to cd and when i boot from that cd it says press enter to continue and the bar moves on the graphical icon... Then it says Uncompressing
Linux... Ok, booting the kernal.
_
and all i get is that blinking _ and it just sits there I get no further.
I have a alienware laptop p4 3ghz 1 gig of ddr 2700 ram and a 60 gig hardrive with 8 mb cache and a nvidia 5600 or something card please help
Just to eliminate any problems about the actual download and burn, did you MD5Sum the file? You might also want to try re-burning the CD. You'd hate to spend days trying to trouble shoot only to find out the CD had a burn error in it
Distribution: Mandrake 10 Official, dual booting with Windows XP
Posts: 22
Rep:
Today I had the same problem at an old 333Mhz laptop here at home. I suppose the system specs are just too low. Booting went extremely slow (though it appears five minutes are normal with MM, this was more like ten minutes), and then I also got this blinking underscore. Anyway, I'll give Mandrake Move a try at my desktop 1,8 Ghz computer in a couple of days, it'll work fine there, I suppose.
When you download from an FTP site or bittorrent, you should look for a file called something.md5sum. For example, I just downloaded Mandrake 10 Beta 2. In addition to 3 .iso files, there was also a file called "MandrakeLinux-10.0-beta2.i586.md5sum". When I opened up this file (its text) I see (among a few other things):
This means that the "code" for CD1 is "9e8c..." IF the file is uncorrupted. So I can test my iso file by typing into the console "md5sum MandrakeLinux-10.0-beta2-CD1.i586.iso" and then comparing the two "codes".
Also, if you use K3B, it will always tell you the MD5Sum of any ISO file you go to burn.
If the sums match, then you can be pretty sure that you have a full, uncorrupted download.
LinuxQuestions.org is looking for people interested in writing
Editorials, Articles, Reviews, and more. If you'd like to contribute
content, let us know.