Hmm.. Since it happened with 8.2 also, here's another thing I thought of. Since you changed boards, have you checked the new bios, and made sure the "PNP" OS is not selected. That's the usual default setting, and that will hang a Mandrake install.
On Friday 20 December 2002 09:29 am, Mark Weaver wrote: > flacycads wrote: > > Mark, This is simplistic, but do other cdroms work in that machine? > > If so, the first thing I would check is for finger smudges or > > scratches on your cdrom disk. I've had installs stop, and rejection > > of cd-2 or cd-3 when asked for them. I couldn't figure it out, until > > I cleaned off the cdrom of small finger smudges. Then all went > > perfectly. It's amazing how a little smudge can prevent the thing > > from being read at a certain point, and this seems to abort the > > installs. Of course, this might not be your problem, but certainly > > worth a look. > > > > Robert Crawford > > Hi Robert, > > I hadn't thought of that and will definately check it out. The one thing > that makes me wonder though is that the very same thing happened when I > attempted to load Mandrake 8.2 as well as 9.0. But I will check the > finger smudges first. > > Mark
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