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Thanks for your reply, I'll try to explain in simple words.. I didn't pre-format space on my hard disk, I thought as a windows user to find a kind of screen to do that during the installation.. I burned my iso at 2X ( i have a 4424x cdrw) on a cd-r using a freeware burning software, BURN4FREE... I thought my iso to be corrupted, so I downloaded it again from a different link, I burned it with the same method, but nothing has changed. I didn't use a secondary cd rom drive for the installation. Can u tell me the procedure to pre-format my hard disk? I don't care to erase my windows xp Thanks for your patience, i'm a newbie

Hi all guys, this is my first post. I'm currently using windows xp but i'd like to try mandrake 9.2... I downloaded it from linuxiso.org, burned it and inserted in the cd-rom; then I restarted my pc.. after some screens an error message appeared: error in exec of stage 2 trying to execute '/usr/bin/runistall2' from the installation volume the following fatal error occured FATAL ERROR IN STAGE: I/O ERROR I can't recover from this you may reboot your system I don't have experience about linux, can u help me? This is my pc: PIII 800 mhz Motherboard Tyan S1854 (chipset Via Apollo pro 133 A) 2 HDs 10 gb Sound blaster live player 1024 Ati 8500le flashed to 9100 Modem Sitecom dc-204 usb (conexant chipset i think) 512 mb ram pc 133 Thanks in advance and sorry for my english