I have never tried Mandrake, but if everything's okay, you should just burn the (3?) CDs and put in CD1. Make sure that in the BIOS it will first check to boot from CD. Then you should get an installer. Your CPU is very slow, so OR mandrake will be very slow, OR you will have to run it in text mode (no graphics).
quote:
"kernal BUG at drivers/ide/ide-iops.c:1005!
invalid operand: 0000 [#1]
CPU: 0
EIP: 0060:[<c01af0d3>] Not tainted VLI
EFLAGS: 00010082"
Looks like there's something wrong with an IDE device, so that might be the CD-drive. Have you changed both the wires and the jumper settings to master? I don't know exactly what kernel panic means, but it's not good! I think in Linux it means that there is a hardware failure
Also, format c: wasn't the best thing to do. The best thing would've been to put in the Mandrake CD when in Windows, because it then gives you a nice menu with choices or something (don't exactly know), or to erase the hdd so that there are no partitions left on it. Then Mandrake will install in the empty space. It should still work this way/with format c:, though
Installing a Linux distro like Mandrake is a bit like installing Windows
- Make sure you have a CD to install the OS
- In your motherboard's BIOS, make sure that it first checks for booting from CD.
- You will get an installer when booting
- Follow the instructions
- Installation is done; system will be booted
- you probably still have to configure some things (graphical effects: low or high, etc.)
- log in
- done
