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No graphical installation in Mandrake 9.1 (standard)

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flap:
I thought you'd managed to get it installed?

Seth:
flap,
    Yes, I installed SuSE 8.2 via the text mode.
 
Btw, for the experts on SuSE....
My mobo (ASUS A7N8X Deluxe) comes with builtin two LAN ports....and I use a NETGEAR 311FA pci card.
They are assigned as eth0, eth1 and eth2.
The PCI card is the eth1. How do I disable the other two (eth0 eth2) ?
Because everytime I boot in I have to configure  the eth1 (module netsame? for NETGEAR) manually as a su just to get online.
Yes, everytime I boot into SuSE I can not get online unless I reconfigure the Network cards.
During the bootprocess I can see that eth1 and eth2 have 'failed'.

And what is process 1670 ? Sometimes I keep getting these endless little popup windows that fills the whole desktop saying it has caused a 'fatal error' and the only solution is to pull the power on my computer?

Help!

flap:
ok, re the boot parameter; when you boot from the cd and reach the boot prompt, you should be able to type
linux mem=768
and press enter to boot with that parameter.

Do you mean a process with an id of 1670? Type
ps --pid 1670
to find out what it is.

Seth:
Thanks, flap.
Yes, it is the process with the id of 1670.
And no I can't check on it because every time I boot into SuSE my whole desktop gets filled with these endless pop ups with the message that something has caused a fatal error and would I like to report it...etc ?
I cant even get to the terminal.
Actually, I tried yesterday...every little pop up I'd close, another one would pop up again.
It was kinda fun.  
I think I probably did something wrong when I downloaded the linux driver off the ASUS site for my nForce chipset and intalled it.
It is a no biggie. I 'll just reinstall SuSE again.
I'd like to think of this as a learning process, albeti a steep one. : (

And on the mem=768, when I boot with the disc, and after the SuSE's logo plus the welcomes (various languages) , I get to the Boot Screen. From here if I choose anything beside the text mode, my monitor will just go blank.
Really, it is no problem because I am pretty comfortable with the text mode. I even did this with the Mandrake 9.1 because I wanted to learn.
So far, only RH's anaconda has been able to get me into the gui mode.
Again, thank you.

flap:
Once you've booted into X you can use Alt-F2 to switch to a virtual terminal and then login and run ps to find out what the process is.

Does the suse setup program not have an option to pass particular parameters to the kernel on startup?

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