[newbie] Install problems

[Tagbo Ekwueme-Okoli]

Hi,
I had mandrake 6.0 running on my machine and I tried to install 6.1. I got
a message with SIGSEGV(11) in it.
The upgrade stopped and I couldn't boot my machine. Now when I tried to
reinstall when I get to the part where the partitions are formatted the
process stops and I get a message with this in it.

Code 28 8b 43 18 a8 04 75 21 8b 43 18 a8 80 74 1a 8b 53 30 31 c0
kernel panic: attempted to kill the idle task
in swapper task not syncing

Does anyone know what this means

Thanks