I don't recall off the top of my head what make hard disk i have, but being
a laptop, it's pretty difficult for me to change anything.
I would like to mess with the DMA/PIO settings in the bios (i have the
latest one from Dell), but again, being a laptop, the bios doesn't let me -
or is this inherent of Dell.
Any other ideas ?
Martin.
----- Original Message -----
From: Civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 1999 7:37 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux4Win Install Problems
> I have managed to produce a similar error on RH 5.1, 5.2, Festen (Mandrake
> 5.3), and Venus (Mandrake 6.0) with boards having Intel chipsets and
Seagate
> Drives of large size. Since I wasn't using Lnx4Win but standard installs
I
> received error 11 or "Mount Failed, Invalid Parameter", at the same point
of
> the install. I am working on this as best I can. Substituting IBM drives
> seems to cure it. Using VERY current BIOSes sometimes cures it. I
suspect it
> is some interaction between using IDE drives in PIO mode and DMA mode at
> different stages.
>
> Civileme
>
> Martin White wrote:
>
> > Had absolutely no list activity all day, then got a whole host of
repeated
> > items alll at once (!!). Not sure if my post got through during all of
that,
> > so i'm forwarding it again as i'd really like to suss this one out.
> > Apologies if it get's received by people more than once....
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Martin White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Monday, August 16, 1999 3:27 PM
> > Subject: Linux4Win
> >
> > > Don't know if anyone can help, but if i try and install Linux4Win on
my
> > Dell
> > > Lattitude CPt333, i get past the formating stage, into the install,
and
> > > shortly after being asked which packages i want, everything bombs out
with
> > > the following (written down and typed so please excuse any possible
> > typos!):
> > >
> > > "
> > > install exited abnormally -- received signal 7
> > > sending termination signals ... done
> > > sending kill signals ... done
> > > unmounting filesystems...
> > > umount failed /sbin/losetup -d /dev/loop7 /tmp/rhimage/dev/loop7:
No
> > > such file or directory
> > > <Tab><Alt-Tab> Between elements | <Space> selects | <f12> next screen
> > > /mnt/proc
> > > /proc
> > > /mnt
> > > /dos umount failed
> > > You may safely reboot your system.
> > > "
> > > Does anyone have any ideas please ? I don't really want to properly
> > > partition my machine at this stage as i may need to reclaim the space
> > > temporarily from time to time, and it will be handy to be able to just
> > copy
> > > the Mandrake directory to the network for safe keeping.
> > >
> > > I have done MANY Mandrake installs before and can normally sort other
> > > peoples problems, but this one seems to be a non-starter !!
> > >
> > > Martin.
> > >
>
> --
> Rejoice, the wait for Windows 2000 is over!
> http://www.ms-windows-2000.com/
>
>
>
>
