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See if you can't post the errors and garbage that comes up. This could give many hints as to the problem.

Are you sure your isp carrier doesn't need sometype of authentication from something in M$?

Try changing the BIOS settings from Auto to LBA in the hard drive configuration area of the bios.

This cleared up my desktop right away.

You'll get an 'Eth0 fails' if the linux box asks for but doesn't recieve an ip. Try removing some of the extra hardware between the linux box and the windows box just to make sure thats not a problem.(hook them together as directly as you can.)

It will more than likely be fixed by the time the final is released in a few weeks. This is the type of error that can't just be passed over. If anything maybe they can revert back to the stuff used for 9.2 and just redress it for 10 if a fix can't be found before the final is finaly finalized and finally released.

http://www.mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtopic=10855

Basicly install the system, make any and all changes and then just follow the directions of our great contributors here to make a bootable cd out of it.

The kernel source and the running kernel must match.

Though running i586 software on a i686 machine is just fine.

Check the download speed of other mirrors. Some have fatter lines and some get fewer people at different times.

Oh goody their going to give away .NET for free. And maybe MSJava.

Giving anything else away is like giving the locks blue prints to the thief.

Don't have hard disks craddled. And that would require a manual hardware change. Using a tape or external drive you can make it automatic and leave it alone untill you need it. If you ever do.

I think its a bad lilo install.

Burn the disk at the slowest speed possible.

Is the cd rom reading over and over again without intalling anything? If it is its not getting a good read off the disk. If your using the graphic install hit the details button and see what it hangs on.

Make sure the jumpers on the back of the drive are set correctly.

Make sure anything onboard the MB not used is turned off in the bios. Make sure the motherboard is not set to share vidio memory. Make sure the drive jumpers are set correctly(shooting inthe dark on this one)

Make sure on install you make a user+password and root+password.

If logging in as a user doesn't work try logging in as root.

I'm sorry to say buts its not uncommon for a purchased box set of Mandrake to be bad. My best recomendation would be to check and see if the disks work on another cd drive. This way you rule out any hardware problems.

As for getting a good copy of the disks, the fastest way if you can't take them back to the place you got them personally, would be to just download the ISO's for 9.2 and burn them yourself.

Make sure you burn the ISO's at the slowest speed you can. This just makes a better burn. If you try installing 10 a few times and you are getting errors on the same packages each time then I would say its a bad download, burn or media. If your getting errors on different packages each try then I would say a hardware problem. Run a memcheck or switch out the cd drive.

If your overclocking cut it back to the normal speed settings and try again.

from command line try typing in the command

update-menus -v

It might hang but if it does just hit the enter key and it comes right back to normal.

Thanks that gets me going in the right direction and I think I can find the right track from there.

Who told you to install via the windows OS?

What security level are you setting things at?

You should be able to see exactly what file the install hangs on during a text install. At best you might even get an error message.

Tell the best you can about you hardware and the exact order of you install steps or problems you get. The more info you give the better. There is never to much info.

Did you run a md5sum on the ISO's before burning and did you burn them as slow as possible?

What security level are you installing with?

If all other vidiio setups fail try using the genaric VESA driver and make sure the monitor is set correctly.

The VESA driver is the driver used during the install. So if you have a graphic install you have a usable VESA driver.

What error message do you get ChrisM?

What does your screen look like?

The Martha Stewert case has both Michel Jackson and Bill Gates shaking in their boots.

None of my ancestors were even here at the time. We left revolutions, famine and unemployment back on the European continent at later dates. Not much later mind you.

I think it was even less than 1/3 support for the revolution. It was the middle 1/3 of undecideds that let it happen from inaction that made the difference.

And your right a revolution with only 1/3 support would be unconstitutional. The problem was we had no constitution yet. Revolution with so little support might be unconstitutional but secession would be constitutional.

That is one screwed up test meter.

Take the test a few times and you'll get a different speed everytime. I just kept hitting the back button untill I hit 255000.0 kbps Now thats speed!!!.

what happens when you try to boot to XPee?

You could try from the command line:

update-menus -v

This should get those missing menu links added.

How do you select your highest judges now? Honest question since I just don't know.

Since our supreme court is selected for life there really is no way to tell what judges will be replaced by what president. Approval by congress is a nice check system for federal judges, but yes it does get political when it is thought that judges can change law by a new interpretation of an old one. That is not really their job. And since no judge (even the supreme court) can change anouther judges dicision untill its officially brought before them it sometimes takes quite a while for a "rogue" judge to be brought under controle.

I haven't heard of and British judges ( the local county court variety) reinterpreting your laws like they do in a few of ours. Maybe we should be moving towards your legal system instead.

Fought a war to get away from you only to find out you were right in the end. DAMN!!!! :D