Happy to report everything worked great. had to deselect gnome-user-docs to install, as mentioned in an earlier posting.
Noticed that my via 8233a audio was detected and installed correctly, however during the install process it said I had no sound card. Strange issue w/ my USB optical mouse. I had to stop and start USB again for it to show up under /dev/usbmouse or for anything to show up under /dev/usb With everything installed I noticed that the mandrake control center did not install. There is no icon on the desktop, in the menus, and the mcc application does not appear to exist, however all of the plugins for it are present. As for the 700MB issue, I personally don't see it being a problem. Here in canada it is almost imposible to buy bulk CD's that aren't 700MB discs. Thanks, NB
