"Lyndon Lininger Sr." wrote:
>
> Yes I have an old Compaq Prolinea 575. 75 Mhz pentium cpu, 64 M ram, 4.3 gig
> ide hard drive, BTC cd-rw drive, kingtech sound card, altech 33.6 modem, the
> video is built into the motherboard, but is a cirrus gd5434. This system had
> no problem installing mandrake 5.3 or redhat 6.0. Hopefully this will help
> in the diagnosis. I can provide any log or init script files if that will
> help. I have a program that allows me to look at the linux drive from
> windows.
>
> Lyndon Lininger Sr.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Lloyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 1999 4:51 PM
> Subject: Re: [newbie] installing 6.0
>
> > "Lyndon Lininger Sr." wrote:
> > >
> > > Help I've tried upgrading from mandrake 5.3, clean installing 6.0 and
> still
> > > can't get it to work. I got the cd from cheapbytes. Everything seems to
> > > install correctly, but when it re-boots I have nothing but problems.
> > >
> > > It goes thru boot until after the hard drive optimizations then I get
> the
> > > following errors.
> > >
> > > Creating /mnt/disk
> > > /bin/mkdir: /bin/mkdir: cannot execute binary file
> > >
> > > [FAILED]
> > > INIT: Entering runlevel: 3
> > > INIT: cannot execute etc/rc.d/rc
> > > INIT: Id "1" respawning to fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> > > INIT: Id "2" respawning to fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> > > INIT: Id "3" respawning to fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> > > INIT: Id "4" respawning to fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> > > INIT: Id "5" respawning to fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> > > INIT: Id "6" respawning to fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> > > INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel
> > >
> > > Then every five minutes it repeats the INIT respawning lines
> > > The only way to exit is to do a power down. Any ideas. Do I have a bad
> cd?
> > >
> > > Lyndon Lininger Sr.
> >
> > I have EXACTLY the same problem. I've tried to install
> > Mandrake 6 probably 15 times, ad I've been very fortunate if
> > I even got it to boot.
> > Maybe you could provide your hardware specifics?
> > --
> > Lloyd Osten
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
I'm wondering if LM6 was compiled to use the cpu MMX
registers. Older Pentium cpu's (like mine, Pentium 90) don't
have them.
--
Lloyd Osten
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
