Trouble Installing Mandrake

[Ronny]

After entering all selections, including package selection..................
The installation begins and gets to 19% and halts, almost everytime.
It has gotten further, tho it still halts. I have never successfully gotten
Mandriva to install. Currently, I have been attempting to install 2006
beta 3. Same stuff happens when attempting last four final releases of
Mandriva/Mandrake.

What's going on? I don't see a way to display the textual mode while
installing so I can see where it's halting.

Gigabyte Ga-7VAXP
2600+ Sempron
ATI 9250
40 GIG IBM
512 Mem
DVD recorder

[Cool Surfer]

Did you try installing with default (minimal)features ?

[Ronny]

Yes I did. I tried just going through the install defaults.

I have tried several different ways of installing.

You know, PCLinuxOS has the same exact issue.
And now I wonder why? It's built on Mandrake!

[oz]

You might try some of the various install options, such as acpi=off:

linux acpi=off

Don't know that it will help, but it might.

[Ronny]

I'll try that and let you know...

I personally do not know all these commands
as I have not had to use them in other distros.

Most distros have installed for me with not much
trouble.

[AlexK]

out of curiosity, did you check the md5sum of the iso before burning them?

the acpi=off tells mandrake that it should not directly try and control the power-saving features of the system (as is my understanding).

IIRC, you can hit ESC and it should show you which package is installing or which ones failed. I think there is an option for detailed view during package installation.

[Ronny]

I tried 'linux acpi=off' and it got to

Installing xorg-x11

and halted.

I tried hitting ESC and it did nothing.

Did not check the md5 but I had purchased a copy from a distro sales site on distrowatch.

[AlexK]

hmm, try

noapic

have you had this kind of trouble with any other distro?

[Ronny]

The only other distro I am having a prob installing is aLinux 12.5

or like I said above... PCLinuxOS.

Red Hat, Fedora, Suse, and many others install fine.

[Ronny]

Now after entering 'linux noapic'

it got as far as Installing package foomatic-db

and halted.

This is NUTS!