Install in graphics crashed. Install in text crashed if I selected many packages. After simple install in text, touching the mouse or starting X locks up the keyboard. Stopping or starting GPM fixes it until the mouse is next touched. Mouse is PS/2 LogiTech M-S48 branded NEC. System is possibly a badge-engineered Packard Bell. I saw two others with similar problems on various Mandrake lists, and they both had commodity systems (one a Compaq, one a Dell off the top of my head) which may be a hint that the bug relates to a specific integrated controller. More bugs follow. -- If at first you don't succeed, try a shorter bungee.
