shydisturbedboy

no.. i havent tried the linux noapic or text noapic... sorry for the misunderstanding. will it be hard if i tried linux noapic or text noapic? im just a newbie in linux. hehe

on the sata drive... it is jumpered as a slave.. i tried removing the ide hd but it still wont install.. also has an error.. forgot what the error says

i have a problem installing mandrake 10.1 on my pc... i have a msi pt880 mobo, p4 2.4, 512mb ram, and a seagate barracuda sata hd and a maxtor ide hd.. i have windows xp service pack 2 installed on my sata hd.. when i boot from cd, there comes a point where it says its installing the driver for the sata hd.. i think.. it says: Installing driver for disk/ide|scsi|hardware_raid|firewire card VIA Technologies Inc|VT 8237 SATA150 Controller after a long wait, it will say: Installing driver for disk/ide|scsi|hardware_raid|firewire card parport_pc then an error occurs: insmod'ing module sata_via failed at/ usr/bin/perl-install/modules.pm line 301 ... what should i do... i'm also planning on installing windows 98.. can anyone pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease help me