I'm having singular lack of success with Linux, tried Mandrake 9 and quite liked it apart from a couple of bugs [could have been mine] since them looked at Ubuntu and Knoppix and although quite nice didn't like them enoughand thought I'd have a look at Mandriva, could produce a bootable version from the iso's I downloaded and picked up a version from Linux User& issue 59 of Mandriva 2006, however it stopps on boot with an error message:
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Unable to mount loopfilesytem
> Dropping to limited shell
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> losetup /dev/loop/0 initrd/cdrom/livecd.sqfs
> mount -r -t squash fs /dev/loop/0
> initrd/loopfs
> loading /initrd/bin/ash
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this is on an 1.8G PIV 256RAM. Is this likely to be hopeless and should I plug on looking looking for another disk? Also thinking about MEPIS and KANOTIX.