Problems Installing Mandrake 8.0 on Intel P4 mother board

[Eric R. Benoit]

Go to one of the Mandrake mirrors, make sure and get the right Mandrake 
version for your system.  Don't you have a package manager setup?  It's 
pretty straight forward.

if you want me to come over and help you sometime you are on my way 
home, I work at Hopevale Union Free School District

JMcNamara at e1b.org wrote:

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> 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
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