I downloaded Mandriva One but I can't figure out how to install it. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Welcome aboard

Burn a CD from the iso image, boot it up and, once logged in, click the "install to harddisk" button on the desktop.

ok i got that now up comes this screen that says "mandriva" and then about 2 seconds later up comes this black window and i dont know what to type. the message that comes up is : -sh: Can't access tty; job control turned off

i don't know what to do!!

Okay, first of all: relax. Then post your hardware specs please. We need some information on the computer setup, otherwise no one can help you to fix the problem.

ok its a dell dimension 2400 with an intel pentium 4 1.8 ghz. it has 128 mb ram

i also tried to install it on my hp intel celeron 2.0 ghz w/ 256 mb ram but the same thing happened!

Corrupted download and/or bad burn

awwwww dang!!

i guess i'll download another copy......

Will a KDE liveCD run on a box with 128MB RAM? I highly doubt it...

AFAIK, it will not run on it. Better get a lightweight distro with e.g. xfce4, e17 or fluxbox as windowmanager.

ok sory i just checked it has 256 MB ram
also im not using kde im using gnome

so i downloaded it(again!) and it says it will not fit on the CD!! the CD is brand new and says it can hold 700 MB. well gnome is 694 MB and it won't fit

ok nevermind.... it didn't work on my one computer, but it does on another

ok now i have another problem: i did all the setup stuff like the date, time, language, etc. and then when im done this thing pops up that says "gnome version 2.18" or something. another window pops up that says "there was an error starting the GNOME daemen settings"
then i sit there for like 15 minutes and nothing happens. what do i do?