Well tell you what:
I've had this stupid thing on all night and for the past 5 hours it has been 
stuck on the 'installing drivers' screen.

It really should work; I mean, my mepis distribution loads and even installs 
(even though I don't have enough ram- 29788KB).  It just came to me: this 
must be the reason that it takes so long to get past the eth0 detection step: 
not enough ram. What do you think?

As it was loading it came to th0 detection and said to the effect of 

  eth0: command 0x5800 did not complete. Status=0xffff
  eth0: command 0x2804 did not complete. Status=0xffff
  eth0: command 0x3002 did not complete. Status=0xffff
  eth0: command 0x3002 did not complete. Status=0xffff
  eth0: command 0x3002 did not complete. Status=0xffff
  eth0: command 0x3002 did not complete. Status=0xffff
  eth0: command 0x3002 did not complete. Status=0xffff
  eth0: command 0x3002 did not complete. Status=0xffff

Any clue as to what this means?
This is what else dmesg says:

 ACPI disabled because BIOS is from 96 and too old.
 ACPI: Unable to locate RSDP
 150.000 MHZ processor
 
I don't know what else to put up.
-- 
<:-)Mike(-:>

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