Help with Mandrake 8.1 install
al coholic
I'm banging my head on yet another Linux distro without much luck so
far.
Can anyone help?? <please!>
Mandrake 8.1 appears to install perfectly, I take out the install CD reset
the machine and I get..
Loading linux............................
Uncompressing Linux... OK, booting the kernel.
Then nothing, just a long wait with nothing happening.
The failsafe option does exactly the same and I don't have a floppy to boot
from.
I've tried various install combinations and tried taking out some ram and
also using both the default monitor and the actual monitor I have, which it
claims to have on it's list (ADI 4V).
I'm telling it to format and use all the HD.. ie no dual boot windoze stuff.
I don't seem to get the option of generating a boot disk anywhere in the
install procedure, is this not standard anymore?
Oh and this old machine ran Win 95, 98 and 98 se with no problems at all.
The machine's a
PII 233
IDE 6Gig Hd on primary IDE
IDE CD rom (on the other channel)
112Meg memory
rgds Al
The Ferret
Hi Al,
I've just installed 8.1 on a machine also running Windoze98Se, as a
dual boot machine. Aside from some small problems with the sound,
everything is looking peachy :-) Where did you get your install disks
from? Are you sure that they aren't corrupted? If you think that
they might be, let me know, and i may be able to help you out with
some replacement ones :-)
Regards
Greg the Ferret
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al coholic
"The Ferret" <gr...@bigredlippyandblusher.greg-harrison.co.uk> wrote in
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> Hi Al,
> I've just installed 8.1 on a machine also running Windoze98Se, as a
> dual boot machine. Aside from some small problems with the sound,
> everything is looking peachy :-) Where did you get your install disks
> from? Are you sure that they aren't corrupted? If you think that
> they might be, let me know, and i may be able to help you out with
> some replacement ones :-)
> Regards
> Greg the Ferret
Hiya Greg..
Do you know, that struck me as a possibility. They came from the PCPlus
cover DVD and their history of supplying proper ISOs isn't exactly
brilliant.
I had a look on their forum a week ago and no-one else seemed to be moaning
so dismissed that one.
Anyone else had a problem wjth those particular ISOs??
Al
Mike Fleming
<som...@somewhere.else.co.uk> writes:
> Do you know, that struck me as a possibility. They came from the PCPlus
> cover DVD and their history of supplying proper ISOs isn't exactly
> brilliant.
That's the one that I used and it went onto a P150 with no problems.
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Mike Fleming
al coholic
"Mike Fleming" <{mike}@tauzero.co.uk> wrote in message
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Cheers Mike. that's ruled out one possibility.
I'm coming round to thinking it's something hardware with this crappy LX
mobo. When I think back, it wouldn't run 95 without a disk full of patches.
Thanks for the help you two, it's back to the drawing board for me..(or the
perhaps the motherboard :-)
Al
The Ferret
No worries mate, hoipe it goes okay :-) Just shout if you think i can
help out though :-)
Mike Fleming
<som...@somewhere.else.co.uk> writes:
> I'm coming round to thinking it's something hardware with this crappy LX
> mobo. When I think back, it wouldn't run 95 without a disk full of patches.
> Thanks for the help you two, it's back to the drawing board for me..(or the
> perhaps the motherboard :-)
There was one thing that I encountered, but it's probably not
applicable - I tried to install a recent distro (can't remember which
one) onto a Cyrix CPU machine, and it got a little way but then froze.
There was someoption (can't remember what) to do either a verbose or a
non-GUI install, which I used, and came to the conclusion that it was
possibly because the CPU was non-Intel and possibly not
Intel-compatible enough. However, you did say it was a PII, so that's
probably not the problem.
--
Mike Fleming
al coholic
Nope not in this case, It's a genuine intel PII.
I've got another mobo on the way for it, if that doesn't cure it.....
back to head-banging again.
The HD proved to have probs but
I just replaced the HD with a complete scsi setup (Card, HD, CD rom)
with pretty much the same results. <sigh>
rgds....
Al.
[If God had meant us to touch our toes, he'd have put em on our knees]