if you had error messages not seen before 'after' having a successful install go south on you then perhaps you have a hardware failure on the cards?, that would explain why you 'lost' the install that was working,
what you described by the way seemed to be an install with 'autologin' selected, my system shows the prompt for a brief time and then presents me a graphical login screen, if i had autologin selected then i would see the prompt for a short period while X launches and then i would be straight into kde - my default desktop - this can be changed from the mandrake control panel under 'boot config' but you need to have a working system for that:-) how about just wiping the hd that you wish to put mandrake on completely and starting again with a text install since if i read aright that worked for you, then if you get just a prompt as you described at one point then either $startx will work for you, or $Xfdrake can be run from a command line to set up X for you bascule On Thursday 11 July 2002 1:19 am, you wrote: > > The final two attempts at text installs ended with error messages not > > previously seen . . . > >exi > > "Segmentation fault; seems like memory is missing as the install crashes" > > (That must as have been written buy a non-English speaker) > > > > And when I hit enter a second text message mixes in with the previous > > message and says "switch to console f2 for a shell." > > > > Of course, none of that is of any help to me because the machine is hung > > and no keys are functional. > > > > Until all of this happened, I ran the smaller HD under WIN 98 as drives > > D,E, and F with G as the CD. So I believe the HD to be sound - even > > though Partition Magic says it has problems. > > > > But the mystery is, how come I had a functional installation of mandrake > > 8.2 for at least 3 sessions and then it went away and I can't install it > > again? -- 'The gods,' he said. 'Imprisoned in a thought. And perhaps they were never more than a dream.' (Sourcery)
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