Installation error Occured

[devils casper]

I would suggest you to create two partitions only. one for / (root) and other for /home.
OR
Leave unpartitioned/free space for SuSe. Select 'Free Space' in Partition Section during Installation. Installer will create/format partitions itself.

[sciontist]

well i didnt have luck with the suse since i re burned the images 3 times and still some stupid packagae was missing, I switched to the ubuntu and waitied 3min and nothing came up on the screen when I wanted to install, and now im trying the mandriva and it wont even let me install cause its being mounted by the live cd, and most of the installations wouldnt let me install unless I had a / /boot /home & /usr created.

[devils casper]

Which Graphics Card do you have? Post your machine's specs here.

[sciontist]

I can get my spec here shortly im away atm, but im just wondering what the graphics card has to do with installing from a liveCD to the hd? My vid is fine I can see the desktop from the liveCD I can also interact with the os, it just wont let me install it to the hd.

Computer:
Operating System Microsoft Windows XP Professional
OS Service Pack Service Pack 2
DirectX 4.09.00.0904 (DirectX 9.0c)

Motherboard:
CPU Type AMD Athlon 64, 2000 MHz (10 x 200) 3200+
Motherboard Name Asus A8N-SLI Premium
Motherboard Chipset nVIDIA nForce4, AMD Hammer
System Memory 1024 MB (PC3200 DDR SDRAM)
BIOS Type AMI (01/02/06)
Communication Port Communications Port (COM1)
Communication Port ECP Printer Port (LPT1)

Display:
Video Adapter NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS (512 MB)

Multimedia:
Audio Adapter nVIDIA MCP04 - Audio Codec Interface

Storage:
IDE Controller Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller
IDE Controller Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller
IDE Controller Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller
SCSI/RAID Controller Silicon Image SiI 3132 SoftRaid 5 Controller
Floppy Drive Floppy disk drive
Disk Drive Maxtor 6B160M0 (160 GB, 7200 RPM, SATA)
Optical Drive HL-DT-ST CD-RW GCE-8240B (24x/10x/40x CD-RW)
Optical Drive JLMS XJ-HD166S (16x/48x DVD-ROM)
SMART Hard Disks Status OK

Partitions:
C: (NTFS) 145745 MB (122839 MB free)
G: (FAT32) 3016 MB (1482 MB free)
Total Size 145.3 GB (121.4 GB free)

Input:
Keyboard HID Keyboard Device
Mouse HID-compliant mouse

Network:
Network Adapter Marvell Yukon 88E8053 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (192.168.1.101)

Peripherals:
USB1 Controller nVIDIA MCP04 - OHCI USB Controller
USB2 Controller nVIDIA MCP04 - EHCI USB 2.0 Controller
USB Device USB Composite Device
USB Device USB Human Interface Device
USB Device USB Human Interface Device
USB Device USB Human Interface Device

[devils casper]

I switched to the ubuntu and waitied 3min and nothing came up on the screen when I wanted to install,

I thought it was a Graphics Problem.

im just wondering what the graphics card has to do with installing from a liveCD to the hd?

Most of installers do not configure ATI/Nvidia Cards properly and either GUI doesn't work properly ( too big or too install ) or just a blank screen.

My vid is fine I can see the desktop from the liveCD I can also interact with the os, it just wont let me install it to the hd.

Could you explain a bit more?

[sciontist]

OKay so now im back to mandriva since I have this insatiable like for mandriva =D. well im actually on the live cd right now, and this is the issue that involves the installation as it appears to close after I have selcted my mount points. first of all I tried to format my / partition this is the error i get:

This image here:





after I click next, the installtion window disappears, no point in trying to run the installation again cause I know it wil crash on me.

after that I ran the live install from the console to see what the output/error was and this is what it had show:

SO I dont know, im lost now. and my brain hurts sadly.

[sciontist]

/bump, ouch my head