Hello all,
Here's an experience i had recently. It may help some of you avoid a similar battle as
i had to
fight.
I was attempting an installation 7.1 or 7.2 (whichever i could get to work first) on a
system with
3 drives. There was already a stable install of 7.1 on the system (on hdc), and all i
wanted to do
was install again on hdb. I went though the graphical install and when it came time to
choose my
partitions, i would ignore all of the partitions on hdc, and create new ones on hdb.
When it came
time to format the new partitions it would invariably want to format the old swap
partition on
hdc. I always said no. If (IF) the install went through, then booting would usually
result in a
panic attack and fatal crash. If i somehow managed to get past that (with failsafe
etc) then it
would core dump when i tried to run almost any program.
I was baffled. Then one day, while doing something decidedly not computer-related, i
had a flash
of inspiration. Maybe i should disconnect hdc for the install and then try it. All of
a sudden the
install went flawlessly (with 7.1 - to this date i have been unsuccessful installing
7.2 on any
system).
The moral of the story: When installing Mandrake, make sure that it can't see any
other swap
partitions during the install. (Could it use the old swap, if it wanted to? Could they
share it? I
don't know.)
Cheers,
John
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