Compaq Leopard Install Problems (Help me)

[JoesMorgue]

I have a Compaq SR5710F, and for those that don't know it has an AMD Athlon X2 4450e (Dual Core), 3 Gigs, a 250 Gig SATA HD (Vista), a SATA DVD DL, NVidia GeForce 6150SE, and NVidia netwerking.

 

I have a 200 Gig ATA (NTFS) that I use for data storage and a 60Gig ATA drive added that I want to put Leopard on, it has a 32Gig Fat32 partition, and the rest is unused right now.

 

When I try to add Leopard, it crashes. Both Non-Leopard drives are removed from the BIOS before the install so as to not cause problems.

 

So far, I have had 2 kernel crashes, and most of the attempts (experimented with switches) have caused waiting for root.

 

I want to learn Leopard, if I have to, I will download (again) the OSx86 and make the mods, but I'm not sure exactly which to get. My research has shown me no experience with the equipment I have to reference. If anybody can help me here, Joes_Morgue on Yahoo! Messanger, or JoesMorgue on AIM, I would REALLY appreciate it.

 

I have a DOS background, but its rusty, and I'm not afraid to experiment, and I think I will just use the BIOS boot menu when I want to boot into Leopard for now because my wife & kids know Winders better.

 

Thank you.