sorry to mail you directly .. but howw did you get into the text installation ?
Henti
On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 11:56:42PM -0500, Ian Douglas wrote:
> (sorry if this is a duplicate, it's been a few days and haven't seen my
> original show up on the list yet)
>
> Hey all.
>
> Finally got my dual P-200 system pieced together and having weird problems
> installing v7.0. This will be my fourth installation attempt this evening.
>
> Tyan motherboard, two Intel P-200 non-MMX processors, 80MB of RAM, 340MB
> hard drive, two 21041-based Ethernet cards, PCI Diamond video card, VGA
> monitor.
>
> Downloaded the ISO image, burned the CD, made the floppy disk and the
> install wouldn't work. Set the BIOS to boot from the CD and at least I can
> run the installer. All I can say is WOW -- way cooler... if I had a mouse
> and a half-decent monitor/video card. Took a little while to figure out how
> to install it in text mode and then the ncurses installation version didn't
> appear to be drawing text on the screen properly. Weird.
>
> Despite having 2 PCI 21041 Ethernet cards, neither the new or old tulip
> driver will detect the cards, which is something I *have* to overcome...
>
> And in text mode, when you manually choose which packages to install, it
> doesn't let you expand the various options to see exactly which programs
> you're installing. Very odd.
>
> So, so far I haven't had a lot of luck with v7.0... Any help would be
> appreciated. Perhaps I should disable one of the CPU's and try installing it?
>
> (in the end, I ended up borrowing a friend's serial mouse and installing a
> 6.4GB drive and getting LM 7.0 loaded, but what a hassle!!)
>
> Thanks,
> Ian
