You did not say but if your Hd is UDMA100 it will not work at that speed
with Mandrake. You will need to change the Hd speed setting in your BIOS to
3 (UDMA66).
Charles :-)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2000 2:56 PM
Subject: [newbie] it won't install :(
> hey all,
> just burned the CDs... boot with the first one, welcomed by a 'welcome'
> message, hit enter... it's scanning SCSI stuff, CD-ROM, then it's says
it's
> loading second stage RAMDISK, it reaches the end, and the error message
> pops up: error loading RAMDISK... and I get a blinking cursor at the
> bottom... :(
> they say Windoze is frustrating... sigh
>
> my specs:
> Athlon 750 (not Thunderbird)
> Abit KA7
> 256MB RAM
> Win2k(24GB), Win98(2GB) Partitions, 4GB unPartitioned
> PioneerDVD 10x, Creative CD-RW 4x2x24 (install/boot from this one...)
> Elsa - GeForce2
>
>
>
