I'm not sure if this belongs in the n00bs forum, but I'll start my tale and see where it gets me. I'm trying to install Mandrake One from the live DVD, so far with no success. It boots fine, I select live install, auto allocate partitions and the installation begins. When the progress bar reached near completion, the live install just disappears. If I reboot, I get a grub error. I've installed the live cd version with no problems, but would like to have the extra packages the DVD offers. I've tried this on both my laptop and on my linux box at home, wit hthe same result on both. I had suspected that it was the partition allocation that was causing the problem, and I manually allocated the partitions, but it failed before it even got as far as the copy.
Any suggestions welcome, I've trawled the threads on LQ and havn't come up with anyone that has reported the same issue, does this sound familiar to anyone?