Trouble Installing Mandrake

[LondoJowo]

However, people still install it and so far there haven't been any 2 am doorknocks demanding that the software be uninstalled.

I don't think you'll get any knocks on your door as long as your watching DVD's you've either bought or rented but should you decide to use libdvdcss for means of reproducing/redistributing DVD's they'll come a knocking.

[Cool Surfer]

i had similar funny problems with xandros , and surprizingly with slakware
and ubuntu distros.

i wasted all those cd's burning the image files. But non of them got installed.

These images .iso's came with a reputed PC mag. I know how u r feeling.
Now have settled for mandrake 9.2 untill someone gives me someting tested and working on their system.

[AlexK]

@ Cool Surfer,
did you try the noapic and acpi=off options? Also, did you check the md5sum of the iso's before burning?

If you like Mandrake, try Mandrake 10.1 or if you want a different rpm based distro, try SuSE.