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If you did try to reinstall Mandrake 8.2 a few times, and the same problem persists, then it could be the disc problem. Do you think you have an account with the Mandrake Club with the package you purchased? If so, you might be able to get a replacement or something. Or just download the ISO and try to see if they works for you.

Galeon has a very elegant and nice interface, unfortunately, it crashed a lot on my Mandrake Linux 8.2 (after upgrading to mozilla.org 1.0 and Galeon 1.25), so for now I will stick with mozillar.org.

I've been looking for many online books and tutorials for Linux, and here are some I think you can check out: 1. Of course, check out The Linux Documentation Project: http://www.tldp.org/ 2. LINUX: Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition http://rute.sourceforge.net/ 3. Article - Linux Books: The Best and the Brightest http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reviews/4380/1/ 4. Newbie's Linux Manual http://www.linuxdot.org/nlm/ For Mandrake, I think you need to test your display setting after choosing XFree86 version (3.36 or 4.2) during installation, only then the X server login will be started, otherwise it will leave you at command line mode after booting.