On Thursday 12 December 2002 12:59 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > On Wednesday 11 December 2002 18:44, Joe Braddock wrote: > > When you say that it requires a hard power off/on, how long have you let > > it wait? Couple things to check, You have a network card, right? Is it > > connected to a hub? If the card was configured to use DHCP to get an > > address and it's not connected (or there isn't a DHCP server on the > > network), you are going to hang until it times-out and then it will > > continue booting. Just a thought. > > > > As for no 3D, the 8.2 Nvidia drivers don't work with 9.0 and I don't > > believe new ones were available at the time the distro shipped (they're > > closed source, so someone couldn't just compile them). The good news is, > > that they are now available! > > > > Joeb > > Hi Joeb - thanks for the reply. > > Yes, I have a Linksys network card - on a 3 comp LAN with a hub. I've > always set it up like this: > > 192.168.0.1 darkforce.com > 192.168.0.2 darkforce2.com > 192.168.0.3 darkforce3.com > > I use NFS between them, Samba (temporarily) thru the MCC when my sons comps > are in Windows. (I don't use Windows <smile>) > > My comp is the server for NFS - and the gateway for the other 2. I have an > external modem for my 'Net connection. > > AFAICT, I setup the network stuff during configuration exactly like I've > set it up for the last 2 releases (which worked fine after a little > "tweaking") I've never, since v7.0 of Mandrake, had an install to fail - > small issues that were resolved? Sure - but never fail. > > I have to admit - its unsettling... :-( > > I remember reading on the list that some other SCSI users had problems, so > I searched the mailing lists but found nothing useful. <sigh>
Ron, have you tried booting with the "noapic" append? Not sure but may get you going. -- Dennis M. linux user # 180842
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