Hope someone can help me.

I bought a laptop and wanted to replace Vista by Linux.
So decided to download Mandriva One, makde un CD and try to boot Linux from the CD.
Unfortunatly, Linux cannot boot, it stops in the process with the error message :

lspcidrake: Line too long at /usr/share/pci.ids, line 1

Does someone knows this pb and how to solve it ?

I'm sure the CD is OK
My laptop is :
ACER ASPIRE 5520G
AMD Thurion 64x2
NVIDIA GeForce 8400M

Thanks
flafla

[moved to laptops and portable devices by tyme]

Greetings!

Did you check the md5sum after you downloaded the file to verify its integrity? Did you burn at a slower speed, say 12X? These are the best ways to insure the burn is correct.

Yes I did : when I wrote "I'm sure the CD is OK" the meaning is :
I've checked md5sum after download from internet
And I used the lower speed to make the CD and also used the verification option after burning..

Hey,

Don't know if this will help but i did a search http://www.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/nbbw.cgi (ACER ASPIRE 5520G linux) & the first link albeit for Ubuntu shows that this laptop will work with Linux http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=3589861 ??

Thanks for your answer but, unfortunatly, this infomation do not help.
In fact, having searching on the net before posting my message, I found this link and have already look at it.
This is not the same problem. In this case, Linux was install, but did not work properly, then all what is proposed is for linux system.
In my case : Linux cannot boot from the CD, then I do not have a linux OS.

Anyway thanks for your answer...

flafla

As I could not find a solution, I've downloaded the othe version on DVD and the installation seems correct. I can boot now linux on my laptop.
But Some othe problems like : wifi doesn't work, cannot see the DVD ...

Give some more information, what exactly does not work. Was wireless interface created, is driver loaded, is the network encrypted, etc? What kind of DVD did you put in the tray (data, video)?

Just to let you know.
I've changes of release and have installed Mandriva 2008.1 Béta 2 (version 2.6.24.2-laptop-1mdv)
Now everything looks OK (network card, wifi, DVD, etc...)