Installing Mandrake 10.1

[ill_industries]

i cant seem to be able to install mandrake on my machine at all

 

the windows autorun program on the cd only will link to websites and not installing

 

if i boot up from the cd, it starts up fine then it gets an error "cd rom not detected" then it wants me to insert a floppy disk with drivers on it

 

i dont know what they are talking about for drivers

and if i go ahead and bypass everything, it asks where to install from, floppy, cdrom, http, hard drive, etc

if i attempt to go the hard drive route, where is the best place to drop the disk image at?

if i go with the net install, well i dont know all my info to do that

asks for my ip addy and the destination ip addy

i dont know of any destinations to connect to in the frist place

 

any help would be great

 

in the mean time, ill see what answers google will find for me

[Zarkhalar]

Hmm... Not sure what you can do.. You could try another linux distribution possibly, or just install slack from a floppy and mount a disk image o.0

[Aristotle]

Mandrake might not support your motherboard. Check the Mandrake website's technical information and see if it is compatible. If not, you will have to use another distro.

[ill_industries]

wow FINALLY got an answer

 

the mandrake site didnt list the mobo as compatable

 

so im SOL then

 

 

is there another easy graphical linux out there?

 

is slackware any good?

[Jezza]

Fedora or SuSe, I'd say. Fedora is harder to install than mandrake, but then again, so is SuSe. lol. Take your pick