installing mandrake 10.1 problems

This is a discussion about installing mandrake 10.1 problems in the Everything Linux category; hi just started looking at linux so no next to nothing abiut it. i have just got myself a new laptop -3200+ 54bit athlon -1024 ddr ram -ati 9700 128 ddr -dvd writer if any of that helps its a clevo/starnote d470k with 17inch wide screen model but when i try to install mandrake it loads program into memory and detec ...

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hi just started looking at linux so no next to nothing abiut it.
i have just got myself a new laptop -3200+ 54bit athlon
-1024 ddr ram
-ati 9700 128 ddr
-dvd writer
 
if any of that helps its a clevo/starnote d470k with 17inch wide screen model
 
but when i try to install mandrake it loads program into memory and detects dvd etc then goes through the sort little text boot thing but just before it gets to the "pretty" install sreen is goes blank and at bottom says
 
processing...
 
and just sit theres for ever!!!!
i can type but nothing happens!!!!
 
can you help me please !!!????
 
thanks alot
 
 
 

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Where did you get the dvd iso image?