[Nottingham] Installation problems - Mandrake 10

[Martin]

David Aldred wrote:
[...]
> Thanks very much for all the help so far, but unfortunately nothing's 
> worked yet (tried more than one CD drive, more than one CD, cleaned CD's 
> thoroughly, disabled PnP, disabled acpi...).

Set the bios for "OS is NOT pnp aware" or whatever.
Disable "legacy USB"

And try booting into linux with:

linux noapic

or even:

linux noapic noapci


> Unless anyone has a blinding flash of solution I'm now considering 
> trying a different distro to get round the problems. Does anyone have 
[...]

I've got a stash of DVDs with various distros on them that you're 
welcome to borrow short term to try.


Good luck,
Martin

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