Thanks I'll use the Konqueror browser once I install KDE, I used 2 different mirrors for m 2 downloads, I think it was because my computer froze at least once during both of the downloads :? . I thought it would have no affect because when ever I look at the log file it just resumes back from the point it stoped downloading I'll try that program you recommended but are there any programs that can resume correctly after a computer froze while downloading?
Oh and I use a different way of checking md5sum I put all the files and the asc file in the same directory and I run the coomad in msdos window: C:\(path)\md5sum.exe -c (name of asc file)
One last thing what happens if I burn this ISO will the installer check if the CD is correct? Or if theinstalle can't extract a file during the process will it say cancel and, I'm left with a half done install?

If you are downloading the file in Windoze, try Getright:

http://www.getright.com

...i use it to download all my linux .iso files. Also try downloading the .iso's from linuxiso.org:

http://linuxiso.org

Whenever i download files from there i usually don't have any problems. To the best of my knowledge, the Mandrake installation does not scan the CDs for errors, so you definitely need to make sure that the .iso file is good before you burn it.

it also helps to burn the CDs at a slow speed - like 4x or less - to avoid errors during burning.

Haha 4x is my top speed LOL, I usually burn at 2x to make sure its right. Wow Linuxiso.org is a good site I'm sure to bookmark it now. And I'm using "Internet download manager" top rated on download.com when I downloaded it. One problem when the download starts the first time it says Resume support: Unknown then after i press cancel not pause (pause seems to be a temporary pause as it doesn't close the window) It seems normally stoped, the second time, when I restart the download it has pause capability. To delete a download I press delete not cancel so I'm wondering if by pressing cancel if it will damage the file.

Run the nd5sum on the file to see if the download came through OK. If it all checks out then try burning again.

OMG! a perfect download I only paused once. But still bad checksum . I downloaded this time from... ftp://ftp.cs.ucr.edu/pub/mirrors/mandrake/Mandrake/iso/ This one seems done right even if the checksum didnt match, I'm going to burn this one and try...

*edit: Ok this is ridiculus I tested again, I used the, write checksum to txt file one to check I checked 2 times both had different answers.

Any other programs to test legitamacy of the iso file?

Hi

Are you downloading the *.iso files cause you should just land up with 1 file in a directory.

ie : c:\My Documents\Mandrake92-cd1-inst.i586.iso

once this is done open a command prompt jump into the directory with the iso image

enter : > md5sum "Mandrake92-cd1-inst.i586.iso"

>40c8812dce7b9f8fb0a3b364af62b974 Mandrake92-cd1-inst.i586.iso

and you should get the md5 number of the first iso image poping up after a short while

Yup I dowloaded the iso. it's funny I got a different checksum each time.

That sounds like a buggy memory chip problem. Can you switch them out and test that idea at least just for the Md5sum?

Memory chip? you mean RAM? Well at least now I know the iso wasn't right it kept freezing randomly during install and errors came up while writing to disk. By the way, there's an option in packages for utilities for configuration I want that to ease configuration, but I'm not completely sure if it's on CD1 any one know?

Random freezes are almost always one of two things. A buggy cdrom drive giving bad reads or buggy ram. Both give the same error on an install.

I tried with both my cd rom drives didn't work, but I'm not sure on the RAM part I got it upgraded a few months ago to 512mb, besides the error I got was could not find pakage locales 232. I downloaded again still sum didn't match this time I didn't pause once used linuxiso.com and used getright .

If you have two memory chips try pulling one out and checking again. Maybe its just one chip thats buggy. You can always put it back later.

You could run MemTest86

It's really a hassle going through all the cords to get to the chips I don't see how this makes a difference, forgive me for being hard headed but it runs fine in windows. Which settings should I use for burning? Track at once, session at once, or disc at once, and should I close the CD?