Major Installation Issues!

[Mag-X]

Oh great and knoledgable Linux gurus, I beg of you to help me!

OK, so I'm going to make a long story short.

Installed Windows XP SP2 on IDE channel one, master (120GB NTFS)
Installed SLED 10.1 64-bit on IDE channel one, slave. (30GB EXT3)
Have DVD-ROM as IDE channel two, master
Have file storage FAT32 hard drive as IDE channel two, slave.

- SLED 10.1's broken Yast crap ticked me off, so I installed SLED 10 32-bit over it.
- Ran the updates and it upgraded to 10.1 and was the definition of FUBAR.
- Installed Kubuntu, and I hate it.
- Tried to install Fedora Core 5. I can get as far as pressing Enter to install, and I get this.
- Tried to install Mandriva and also only got as far as "Press Enter to Install." Mandriva's Errors...

Have updated MoBo BIOS.

Shite ECS RX480-A Mobo
939 AMD Athlon 64 3200+
1GB DDR 400 RAM
ATI Radeon X1600XT

Help!

[ImNeat]

So what exactly is your issue? Are you trying to troubleshoot the FC5 & Mandriva installs?

I am assuming both suse & kubuntu installed without problems - so your hardware is all set up correctly.

Also, I have heard numerous poor reviews of kubuntu. If you don't mind Gnome, maybe Ubuntu would function more to your liking,

[Mag-X]

I forgot about this post. I was trying to trouble shoot why Fedora and Mandriva would not install. I figured it out though.

1) Turns out that they dont like 40 conductor IDE cables. Go figure.

2) Yes SuSE and Kubuntu installed perfectly

3) I hate Gnome.

[ImNeat]

heh - I don't care much for Gnome either =)

Glad to hear you have everything sorted out.

[Mag-X]

I wouldn't say that everything is sorted out, but I got it installed for sure.