To all, I hope I am not repeating an issue that has been discussed on this mailing list recently, but I could not find any reference to my problem in the archive. I have tried twice to install LM 8.0 on my compaq deskpro 5200MMX, both time failing. First with the cheapbytes 8.0, most recently with a store-bought set. Install hangs during the package installation step. After choosing a clean install, partitioning my harddisk (299 MB for /, 106MB for swap, 1.3 GB for /usr, 1.2 GB for /home), formating, picking packages, drakX begins to install them. In the case of the recommended install, a message appears right away that ldconfig-2.2.2 has not installed properly, do you want to continue? I click continue, install continues. Later a message appears about mesa-common, similarly, not installing correctly, do you want to continue? So I click continue. Some more packages install, then the system hangs. In expert mode, after picking packages, installation begins, with no errors. However, the system hangs about a tenth of the way in, and I have to hard reset. The behaviour is the same in the cheapbytes and commercial mandrakes. One time, after partitioning, formating, picking packages, and installing them, I actually reached the end, and would have continued to the next step, but there was a message about there not being a hdlist. Does that mean drakX can't find my hard disk? My system has 96MB, a 3.0 GB Western digital hd, a ZIP 100 USB modem, HB deskjet 610C printer, Hitachi CDROM, and is a 200 MHz pentium machine. Can anyone offer a suggestion what might be happening to prevent mandrake 8 from installing on my machine? Ben
