I recently downloaded the Mandrake Linux 8.0 Inst and Ext ISO's from ftp://ftp.onenet.net. The checksums from the FTP and the checksums I generated on my end were the same, so I went ahead and burned the CD's without difficultly. THe computer I'm trying to install on is a P233MMX with 64meg RAM, 3gig HD, 48x Creative CD-ROM. I set the BIOS to boot A, CDROM, HD, and leave the floppy drive unused, so it boots from CDROM. I put in the Mandrake 8.0 Inst CD and everything starts fine. Going through the steps: "Choose your language" -- Worked fine, picked United States. Accepted the EUL. "Select installation class" -- I only have Recommended and Expert options, while the text box says I should also have a Custom option. I selected Expert and clicked install. "Hard drive detection" -- Detected no SCSI interfaces. Clicked no & ok. "Configure mouse" -- Selected the standard PS/2 mouse. "Choose your keyboard" -- Selected the plain US Keyboard. "Security" -- Selected Medium security level. (Will be running servers) "Setup filesystems" -- hda 3gig, 781 cyl, 128 head, 63 sectors. Made one lump Ext2 partition (hda1) with cyl 0 - 763 (3009meg). Made a swap space of cyl 764 - 780 (66meg). Formatted both partitions. "Format partitions" -- Formatted both partitions. "Choose packages to install" -- We finally get to the error. I get the message "Please wait Looking for availible packages" and then get this error: "An error occured no hdlists found." During earlier attemtps I got a much larger message, that it wasn't finding /mnt/somethingsomething/hdlist.CD1 (x86) somethingsomething.cz Well, you know as much as I do at this point about my attempts to install. ANy ideas? I'd really like to get Linux installed on my system.
