Mandrake 10.1 DVD Installation Problem

[Dr.Kylstien]

I bought the i586 DVD from Linuxpickup, I boot up with it, go to the standard install, and evenually it goes to a text screen saying something to the effect of "please wait..." I wait for what seems like along time. The first few times this happened I rebooted. On another attempt I went to the console/log, waited longer, and found that it was some kind of loop which the software eventually detected and fixed. Then it brought up the select language screen. I completed the step and proceeded, but the second step either never came, or I just didn't wait long enough. I have since tried virtually every other option and gotten the same result. I am very desperate to leave Windows and would like some help. This is the second distro I have tried to install, and I don't want to have to try a third. (The previous distro was LBA Linux R2 which didn't work out because of an unrelated inconveinience.)

Edit:

My system:
Compaq Presario S5100NX
Intel Celeron 2.60Ghz
128mb Ram
JLMS X-HD1665 DVD drive (The drive used to install)
Windows XP

[sabin]

There's one thing you have to disable, if it is enabled in the BIOS, about the harddisks, did you check it ? (search the word bios on the forums ! ^^)

For me too, once or twice, it got frozen during tens of minutes. I found it a bit shorter with replacing usb mouse with ps2 mouse, but otherwise, no idea !

[Dr.Kylstien]

Some real help please?

[sabin]

screw yourself