Greetings,
Short version: My installation of 10.0 from CD appears to be going fine until I get to the "Installing Bootloader" step. The installer interface tells me to "Please Wait" and "Installing Bootloader." After 10 minutes and not seeing any hard drive activity, I gave up. Help?
Long version: I'm installing on about 5 GB of previously unallocated space on a 13 GB Western Digital drive. The first 8GB is Windows NT. I clicked Auto Allocate on the installation interface to set the partitions, and that seemed ok at the time. When I got to the bootloader step, it asked where to put the loader. I selected MBR (the first choice). After this, the installation apparently hung, so I hit the reset button. I found I couldn't boot into NT. After searching forums, I changed the BIOS to LBA for my hard drive and I can now boot to NT. Tried installing Mandrake again, but it hung in the same place. The partitions were still there, though.
I'm a total newbie to Linux, though not PC hardware. Thus, detailed instructions would be helpful.
Thank you!
--gnickle