help installing linux mint 7

[dangerousmouse]

i got a new hard drive the other day, so have a 120gig spare now.

fancied giving linux a whirl on this. im completely new to linux but mint seems to be a good one to start with?

i downloaded the disc image, made an installation cd etc. removed all hard drived except the one i want to install linux on. cd boots, get a progress bar which gets to 100% then the display just goes blank!

the pc is still running, just there is no display.

amd x2 6000, 120gig sata maxtor drive (i think this is set up in raid JBOD or something).

hopefully someone can help.

 

[dangerousmouse]

for some reason i had to set the single hard drives to jbod otherwise they werent getting recognised?!

i have
2x wd raptor 74gb in raid 0
1 x seagate 1.5tb jbod
1 maxtor 120gb jbod

if there is another way for the single hard drives to be recognised while using the raptors i am interested.

graphics card is a sapphire 4650

 

[dangerousmouse]

mint 7. downloaded it last night.

 

[dangerousmouse]

Doesn't seem to be doing anything.

I have an nvidia 6600 I will pop in and give that a whirl.

 

[dangerousmouse]

Thats really weird! Yeah see what happens with the nvidia card (just in case) otherwise id recommend trying another distro, unbuntu seems to be popular.

still at work, so i wont be attempting anything until i get home.

What monitor do you have?

samsung syncmaster 226bw