myabko

SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEETT i got it to work thanks for the advice bvc, the commands worked dead on.....now if i can only learn how to use linux :unsure: , i'm in way over my head (i think i've been brainwashed by gates to only understand windows)

thank you all for your replies....as to answer your questions counterspy....i didn't even think burning the image was going to be a problem so i burnt it highspeed and didn't check the images...i don't beleive my bios has a pnp option (i've checked for it many a time) and i have run scandisk and i have a program that constantly defrags my system so i don't believe that would be a problem i'm currently running on a custom built ecs laptop took these specs off of their website, i can get into more detail if necessary: CPU * Intel Pentium 4 or P4 Celeron CPU up to 3.06GHz without HT function. Audio * AC97 2.1compliant, , 5.1 channel support, built-in two stereo speakers BIOS * Phoenix * Support PnP, password Communication * 10/100 Base-T LAN on board * Optional Mini PCI solution: Fax/modem V.90/V.92+802.11b WLAN (Combo) or Fax/modem V.90/V.92 * Built-in 802.11b wireless LAN antenna Core Logic * SiS 645DX + SiS962, support Hyper Threading (HT) function HDD * 2.5" 9.5mm height, ATA 100/66 supported, up to 5400 rpm Memory * 2 x SODIMM slots, expandable up to 1GB on one slot * Support DDR SDRAM module Optical Drive * 5.25"/12.7mm QSI Cdrw/dvd-rom drive sbw-242 PCMCIA * Type II PCMCIA slot, support CardBus Power Management * ACPI 2.0 supported Video & Graphic * ATI Mobility M9P, AGP 4X * 64MB DDR Video RAM 1024M of RAM, 2.8 GHz proc etc... oh, btw i have tried to install mandrake 9.1 off of a friends cds...it worked fine for her (not dual boot though) but it won't start for me...different error all together i'm getting ready to give up (which is such a shame, i love trying new things on computers) any advice at all would be appreciated

i've been trying for weeks to install mandrake....first atttempt same error, had to reinstall windows....i gave it a break for a while but now i wanna try it again...i partitioned my hd using partition magic and created a partition for it's dualbooting software, Bootmagic...when i reboot my comp with mandrake in it goes through the install process untill about halfway through the loading program into memory, where my hd stops spinning and the installation stops... if anyone could help it would be great Should i not use partition magic or bootmagic...... Please help, i wanna give linux a try...