[darkelf_18]

I just tried Installing Mandrake 10 on an old laptop I had laying around. And for some reason everytime I hit the enter key(when it asks me to hit enter to install, or hit F1 for more options) it says that its looking for Mandrake CD in CD drive, then it starts booting from the CD, and after a few minutes of the the CD spinning around it says something like this...
"Sending termination signals... done."
"Sending kill signals..."
Then the laptop reboots.
Does anyone know why? Its not a bad CD cause I installed it on my desktop and it works. So I am at a stand still.
Please help ASAP.
Thanks,
D.E_18

[darkelf_18]

Bump...

[lynch]

How old is this laptop?
MDK 10 is optimized for i586 systems. You may need to get an older version and try it.
lynch

[darkelf_18]

Hey Lynch, the laptop is an older one. Its a Quanson Laptop PI or PII 200 Megahert Proc 16 or 32 Mb of RAM( I can't remember the Laptop is out in my Car and I am to lazy to go get it) Then its got a CDROM and Floppy drive. I gave the specs to a guy at a LAN Party who knows alot about Linux and he said that Mandrake 10 would run off it. And if he was wrong, could anyone tell me where I could get older versions of Linux? I looked around and my friend looked around and between the two of us we couldn't find any of the older versions.
Thanks,
D.E_18

[Mike Nieves]

Slackware or Debian are good for older computers, but not the easiest to get to the graphical desktop. Linuxiso.com for distros.

[tsunam]

uh mike that'd be linuxiso.org . SInce .com takes you to a german version of a similar site.

[Godric]

My computor does the same thing. Cause: CD-ROM drive (D:\) is not installed unless it has a driver floppy from wich it boots from into DOS. Cause #2: It can't be set to boot from cd in BIOS.