chrisdicko

Hiya, I tried your suggestions, but still no joy Do you think its worth trying another version of linux?

Cheers guys, much appreciated!! Im sure the ISO's are fine, as someone else has used them on another machine. Ive run MD5Sum on them, and there was no reported errors, so thats a bonus. The liveCD i used was the official madrake one. I didnt know there was any others really, lol. Also, how can i see if my PCMCIA is causing the problem? As i dont use it, and i cant disable it anyway to install linux on to. Are knoppix/lindows/debian just versions that run off the CD? as i suppose i could try another version really.....Also, the PClinuxOS can that be downloaded Dragon, i get what your saying, but how can i fix the driver issue (and kernals) if I cant actually get anywhere near installing mandrake? im new remember...so aint understanding this linux stuff ;)

Thanks for the reply guys! This is the spec: Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo D 7830 Intel® Pentium® 4 CPU 2,80 GHz Cache L2 512 Kb Chipset Intel® 845 FSB 533 MHz 512 Mb DDR-SDRAM 333 MHz expandible until 2048 Mb in 2 DIMM slots 60 Gb Fujitsu MHT2060AT, ATA DISK drive 15,0" TFT-XGA 1024x768 Combo DVD +RW +R RW8160 Ati Mobility Radeon 9000 64 Mb DDR Vram Smart Link 56K, V.92 international modem Ethernet LAN 10 base-T/100 base-TX National Semiconductor Corporation DP83815 Audio VT1612A Parallel port S-Video Firewire IEEE 1394 PS/2 TV Out 5 USB 2.0 ports And, a link to it HERE Ive been asking in the Installing Linux thread aswell about my problem if any of it might help......HERE Ive tried using the LiveCD, and everything runs smooth....well, except for the modem isnt recognised, but im sure that wouldnt be too hard to solve once/if i get Mandrake installed! The main problem is that when trying to install (using CD1 or 2), it gets to the screen where it says <Enter> to install, or F1 ........ and after pressing evter it just black screens, ansd nothing else happens! :( Any ideas what it could be? Thanks

Hmmm, so it maybe sounds that im not going to be able to install linux then :( ac_dispatcher, cheers for them links, im going to check them out today! Got THIS from the first link thought, and the guy has installed linux on the same laptop.....so i might be able to aswell. Is slackware 9.1 just a different version of linux? As would it be worth trying that instead on Mandrake do you think? (remember, total newbie here ;) ) Thanks a lot

Do you mean do all the switches as in: linux acpi=off noapci vga=normal nodma .............all in one line?

hmmm, Is there anyway of fixing this do you know of? Thread here aswell if you can check it out. Cheers

Tried that cheers.....and it did get further, but still just froze. This is the 1st time ive actually seen anything after hitting enter. I tried both text vga=normal, and just vga=normal, with both discs....and quite a lot of random text got displayed, and at the end of it was: Kernal Panic: Attention to kill init! Does that mean anything to you?! Ive had a look through other posts, but cant really find anything related to my problem....only something on a slightly different gfx card....and the person solved it by using: linux idebus=133 but this still didnt work :( .....please! Edit: Ive also tried that md5summer program to check my ISO's, and they are fine :)

Thanks for that. It still does the same as before im afraid thought. I tried with CD1 & 2. Just searching through the forum, but there are quite a lot of results :(

Cheers for the reply! Ive tried the 2nd disc, but the same still happens. I got the discs off a mate who has also installed mandrake....but he used CD1 no problems. I cant figure out whats wrong. Any more ideas please? Thanks

I know it doesnt make any difference with Windows, but does installing linux on a laptop compared to a desktop make any difference at all? Just im having trouble installing linux for no reason really.

Hiya, im new to linux, as you will soon know! lol Ive currently got WinXP Pro installed, and am wanting to dual boot with Mandrake.....but am having problems..... I reboot, with CD1 in, and it brings up the Install screen, where you can press enter, or F1. I press enter, and the loading bar just below the menu loads....then it goes on to a black screen, but then just hangs. So i tried pressing F1, and trying the expert install. but this happens again. The exact same thing happens with CD2. My spec is: Laptop P4 2.8GHz 512Mb DDR RAM Radeon Mobility 9000 XP Pro 60Gb HD, partition in to: >7Gb for WinXP >15Gb for Programs >25Gb for STUFF...wanting to share with mandrake >10Gb currently empty, and wanting to install mandrake on here So, can you say what im doing wrong?? Thanks in advance!