[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>Well, if you have tried that and booted from CD2 with an alternate >>image, it may be failing at uncompressing the ramdisk (in other words, a >>media vs CD drive problem) Alternate media or an alternate CD drive >>would be my first moves next. After that.... Hmmm I know some people >>with that model actually working under 8.1 so my guess is media. >> >>Civileme >> > >Hmm. I should also have said that I used the retail box version (from >Fry's electronics) and it still happens, so I'm hoping the media is >good (especially since I tried a friends retail box version (the 7 or 8 >cd set, for both his and mine), and had the same problem. I've also >tried a downloaded version and it had the same result. > >So I'm hard pressed to think that its the CD media. Perhaps I'm >having trouble with the CD drive in my laptop - but when I tried >doing a network install it ran overnight asking the network for something >and never got anywhere (using solaris as nfs server, with pcmcia ethernet >card). I'll try some other things and report back later (things like >ftp install, another nfs install with a mandrake nfs erver, etc). > >Civileme - if the people you know who have gotten 8.1 to work >on their toshibas want to email me directly that would be fine >if they have any ideas... > >Thanks! > >rc > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > Well it was 7.2 and 8,0 with kernel 2.2--and they all had 48M RAM.
I sent two of them your address, but I don't know how helpful they will be. There is really nothing in the specs that seems odd or in any problems they reported that matches what you are reporting. ftp installs are neat except you may not receive a signal to switch disks... Civileme
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