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Hello all, I am not new to this but the problems i faced are new to me yet i wont think of myself as expert at all in Linux so all your help will be difinitly appreciated First it is Mandrake 9.2 the free edition which i have installed few times before on different machines and the only problem faced was cannot creat floppy boot disk during the installation (this pblm was persistant) the machine i'm facing pblms with now is as follows Mother Board Asus P2B-F HD 15 GB CPU Intel PIII 450 MHz RAM 256 BIOS award modular Graphic Card 3DFX voodoo3 (3000) Audio Creative SB Live When tried to install mandrake 9.2 I had the error EE PCidata module does not exist upon searching i found it was sort of popular error reinstalled trying different settings problem solved by using XFree 3.3.6 insted of 4 with 3D hardware acceleration But, during the installation i had another errors (had the same during first install too) the errors: mdk-menue_messages-9.2-6mdk.i586 mdkkdm-9.2-9mdk.i586 XFree86-server-4.3-23mdk.i586 with each i get the question that it cannot be installed continue anyway? so i choosed yes when i boot i get 2 errors interface eth0 failed cannot write controle 3.0.0 efx after i get the localhost login either by logging on as a root or any user i get the same strange problem which is the system loads but there is a difference between choosing KDE or Gnome with KDE i only get flashes and nothing else with Gnome i got all fine except there is no start button (the star icon) the programs do not exist some as calculato and paint worked fine all others say error cannot be launched or did not find them i also did file system integrity check and it passed fine Thank you all for any help you can provide

Thanks for the reply I did not burn the CDs I bought them with a linux magazine and worked quite fine before. You are right thou about the CD drive, it is quite old one the style that you have to put the CD in a box then insert it in the drive after yet its speed is kinda decent 12X. The machine is not mine so i do not know if there is issues with the CD drive but seems there is not. Should i replace it with another CD drive and try to install from there? Also if the errors related to the log in manager, why I do not find the applications? or find some with Gnome less with other GUIs and none with KDE? Thanks

Perhaps I should add that in the first time i tried logging on as root and typing startx but it freezes everytime i tried that now i do not get graphical interface for user login i type the user name and password then startx for the GUI to load I also tried the su command after logging on so the $ turns to # (root@localhostuser) then typing startx command to load the GUI Thank You