Problems Installing Mandrake 8.0 on Intel P4 mother board

[Robert Meyer]

If you installed Mandrake 10.1, then the default should have been KDE.  Is it
possible that you either deselected KDE on install or maybe told your login
screen to select Gnome when you logged in?

Cheers!

Bob
--- JMcNamara at e1b.org wrote:
> Thanks for the help. I was able to install 10.1 easily. However it did not 
> come with KDE. Any suggestions are how to get it and what version? Being 
> new to Linux this is all very foreign to me. Your assistance and guidance 
> is greatly appreciated.
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> Joe
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> Can anyone help me with my problem? 
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> I am trying to install mandrake 8.0 on new PC with an Intel D865PERL 
> motherboard and Intel P4 processor. When I load the CD it boots normally 
> to the initial installation screen and I press enter to begin the 
> installation. A DOS type screen comes up with all sorts of information 
> about things be loaded etc. The last line reads "pci_ide: unknown IDE 
> controller on PCI bus 00 device f9, vid=8086, did=24db vfs: cannot open 
> root device "" or 08:05. please append a correct " root=" boot option 
> kernal panic :vfs:unable to mount root fs on 08:05" . 
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> Has anyone come across this error before or do you have any ideas? 
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> I have already contacted Intel... they were little help only giving me 
> links to drivers and stating that Linux is not a supported platform. 
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> Thanks, 
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> Joe 
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> Joseph V. McNamara, CCNA, CCAI
> Instructor, Cisco Networking Academy
> Erie 1 BOCES
> Potter Career & Technical Center
> Phone: 716-821-7331
> Fax: 716-821-7336
> jmcnamara at e1b.org
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