I just formatted my whole Seagate 80gb Baracuda drive and installed Windows XP on the drive with 8gb left of unpartitioned space left for Mandrake 10. I get into the installation pretty fine (except for the fail's I see when there are a billion lines of whatever that garbage comes up before it installs) and I get to the partitioning stage and I told it to use the free space and it always gives me some errors, I saw something about "no kernel" or something like that, and MD5 something. I should probably write this down. But if anyone has had these problems before they might know what I mean. I'm going to write the errors down, and I'll be back. Sorry for not doing this before.

If it uses the term MD5, it's probably suggesting the install disc you have is corrupted, or used a bad ISO in burning. Did you run an MD5 sum on the ISO before you burned it?

-Arek the Absolute

No I didn't how would I go about doing that?
I burned the cd once before on a CD-RW then just a couple of days ago on a CD-R both using Nero Burning Rom.

There are a number of programs available for windows that will do MD5 sums for you. All you need is one of those, the ISO, and the md5 file you should have been able to download along with it. The MD5 sum program should then be able to check the ISO for errors.

Here's the first non-commandline MD5 program Google found for me.

[edit] I checked one of the mirrors listed on Mandrake's site, and all they had is one MD5.asc... I'm fairly sure that's should be the file you need to check all three ISOs.

-Arek the Absolute

is there some place where i can get .net framework to run this thing, the microsoft site is being a bitch

See if there's another one you can download somewhere that doesn't require the .NET framework then. There's plenty of programs available... Another one here. If that doesn't work, just use a Google Search until you find one that does.

-Arek the Absolute