Trouble installing Mandrake 8.0 under Windows ME

[fury22]

I just got Mandrake Linux 8.0 Powerpack. I put in the first CD and my computer reads it. After a few lines I get an error message saying that it cant uncompress ramdisk 2, press enter to continue. Everything goes fine untill it starts searching for the packages to install, my system will either freeze up or Ill get a message that says something that I totally dont understand. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!! :(

[Choozo]

Well, you don't say anything about the hardware you have there, but my first suggestion would be turning OFF PnP OS and Shadow Memory/Graphics in BIOS.

Let us know how things are going.

Cheers :)

[fury22]

Hordware rundown:
AMD Athlon 900, Mat****a ida harddrive 20GB, Nvida Riva TNT2, 128mb RAM, no scsi that I know of, 56k networking card. Sorry if I left something out, all of this stuff is new to me. The message that I get on the first installion disk is " ERROR - unable to decompress second stage ramdisk- press enter to continue" Thanks in advance :(

[Choozo]

Okay ...... now did you try the BIOS suggestions?

[fury22]

Yeah, I tried that and under my BIOS I have neither of those options. I took the original package back today and got a replacement. Im hoping that it was just a bad burn of the disk. I am so sick of Windows. Any other help you might give would be greatly appreciated. Any idea what the error about uncompressing the second stsage ramdisk might be? Thanks :(