On Saturday 22 December 2001 20:47, you wrote: > Hi. I just downloaded the install ISO image for Mandrake 8.1 and burned a > CD-ROM from it. Then I restarted my computer and the Mandrake > installation program started up. I pressed Enter and after a bunch of > lines on the screen the process stopped with the following error message: > > <0>Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! > > I tried this again, pressing F1 instead of Enter and choosing various > other installations, such as vgalo. But they all resulted in the same > error. > > Does this mean my hardware is just not supported? > > It is an HP (Hewlett-Packard) Pavilion 2000, Celeron 400 MHz, 192 MB RAM. > > Thanks, > > Doug Lerner, Tokyo Should not be a problem. From what I have seen on the mail list. Are you sure you have a clean download of the iso's by using checksums? It sounds like the install CD is not good. If you burn a new one, burn it at a slow speed like 2x. HTH -- Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842
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