----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith Antoine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 12:14 PM Subject: Re: Win95 replacement
> > Um, ok so its gone on another computer, so its not the disk. However, EXACTLY > how are you going about the install, not through windows, I hope. I have seen > many crashed installed that were done via windows. What steps, please list, > are you getting to. What Hardware do you have , plaese list too. > Ok, I have received several replies and greatly appreciate the help and suggestions. Now I don't know whether to feel silly or glad. While re-doing all of the step that I have taken so that I could write down the messages, I was able to start the install via boot floppy and successfully installed mandrake. I can't figure out what has changed since, or maybe what I did wrong last time :) However, I still got the same error when trying to boot from the cdrom. While I would like to figure out the cause of the cdrom error, I have erased the evidence. Several people have asked about the CD player, it did work in windows and I was able to see the contents of it. In fact, I created the boot floppy with tools provided on the cd. Declan has inquired about the physical connection of the cd-rom which I will check after work today. Otherwise, here is the information requested and the steps taken when trying to boot from the cdrom. Thanks again. Derek Pentium 150 80 meg ram Western Digital 6 gig IDE hd (windows95 only, 4 partitions - 3 partitioned into ~1.97 gig, 1 with the remainder) Digital Research 36X IDE CDROM drive Creative Banshee 3D Blaster with 16 meg SDRAM I don't know the motherboard or ram manufacturers. The steps: 1. After failing to boot directly from Mandrake cd, Caldera cd, or RH cd, adjusted BIOS to boot starting with CD, then A:, then C: 2. After making the switch, still ignores the cd and boots windows 3. From the mandrake cd, I read in the help file that I can reboot into DOS mode and use the autoboot.bat file from \dosutils on the cd. This appears to successfully begin linux installation, but I get the error "Kernel Panic : vfs : unable to mount root fs on 08:04". _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
