Thanks to Noam Meltzer, Shaul Karl and Dani Arbel for their suggestions.
They all suggested part (or all) of a quirky combination of substandard
CD, CD-ROM drive and buggy kernel version.
I successfully installed Mandrake 8.1, after I moved the hard disk from
its own controller (/dev/hdc) to the
Thanks to Noam Meltzer, Shaul Karl and Dani Arbel for their suggestions.
They all suggested part (or all) of a quirky combination of substandard
CD, CD-ROM drive and buggy kernel version.
I successfully installed Mandrake 8.1, after I moved the hard disk from
its own controller (/dev/hdc) to the