«[-®ºmmë£^£ºvë§^£ºµ©4룣ë-]» wrote:
> Nope, but I tried installing it on another CPU with AMD K6-2 and 64 MB RAM
> but it still hangs-up on the same part ... could it be the partitioning of
> the hard disk ??
Depends. What partitions did you make using Windoze FDISK? You didn't try to
make the Linux partition with it, did you? My suggestion would be to delete
any non Windoze partitions, and using the Mandrake install program to create
them. Besides, you're going to want more than one partition for Linux
anyways. You're going to want a swap space (it's much faster having the
dedicated partition than using the swap-files), and probably a boot partition
as far up the front of the drive as possible, since the version of LILO shipper
with MDK 7.0 (and 7.1) has the 1024 sector limit... which means you'd have to
use a boot disk if you don't have the kernel stuck up 1024 or less to the front
of the hard-drive. The latest version of LILO doesn't have that problem,
however, so if you download it you can avoid the need for a boot partition (and
boot disk).
Anyways, as to the hanging up, I would say it's possible, but unlikely it'd
freeze where you said it was. You might also want to check the motherboards
and see if they are Linux compatible (some motherboards are really weird and
thus no drivers work with them yet). But I'd try the partitioning thing
first. Just delete any Linux partitions you made with Windoze and recreate
them with the MDK installer, if it lets you
sean Middleditch
