Cameron, Given you only have only a 4 gig HD, there's a chance (albeit a slim one) that it may be crapping out on you because you're running out of room. I've encountered similar problems due to lack of space. I've always experienced Madrake as a fairly space-hungry distro because of how it's dependency resolution works.
Hope that helps, Good luck. Marcel On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 09:51, Cameron Nikitiuk wrote: > System is a 200 Mhz, 4 GB HDD, 96 RAM, ISA Sound Card, Realtec NIC, > etc...nothing really exotic or unusual here. > > Tried rebooting a couple more times and got the errors I mentioned before. > Tried RTFM that I got with an older mandrake distro and it would seem that > it stalled around the configuring bootloader or x-configuration. I think I > might just try reinstalling again, but if this is still going to be coming > up. The time it takes too reinstall is a big pain in the ass too. > > Cameron > > BTW - Thanks for th insight and help people have offered. I will keep you > posted. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mark Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2003 8:39 AM > Subject: Re: (clug-talk) Penguins Can Be A P.I.T.A. > > > > On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 21:56, Cameron Nikitiuk wrote: > > > DAMN!!! > > > > > > As some of you may recall, I tried installing drake on my fiances > machine, > > > but was having troubles with the hard drive. Well...after testing a few > > > drives and cables in a couple different machines, we finally found one > that > > > worked. So all is good...or so we thought! > > > > > > We thought what the heck...lets get naked and install mandrake. We got > to > > > the point where it looked like it was configuring the booloader or x and > the > > > mouse just froze right up. I don't know if I was just being impaitent > or > > > what but I rebooted that beast. Was I wrong in doing so and have to > > > reinstall everything again or should it have enough to reboot and start > OK? > > > > What is the system again? A Pentium? It could be that Mandrake doesn't > like the > > older hardware. You may want to try a distro with less hardware > requirements. > > (That's pretty much any other save Knoppix which doesn't like some older > hardware). > > > > >
