Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.0 installation hangs

[Graham]

I don't know if this is relevant but I had a similar problem with my g/fs machine which turned out to be the MS blue USB optical mouse she was using (she liked the colour). In desperation I took everything back to basics an used my Logitech USB mouse and everything went thru fine. I was curious and tried a complete re-install with the MS USB mouse and got the problem back again. Tried again with the Logitech mouse and no further problems. I can only suggest that mdk 9 is touchy about the 'rodent' you use as I've noticed previously others had mouse problems after 9 was released.
May not be the problem but just sharing my experience with the list.

HTH

Graham

Marc wrote:

I replaced it with a different model and manufactuer cd drive. Also it does make it to the second level part of the installation. The first part where I am asked to select language and type of installation , reccomended or expert seems to work just fine. The problem is in the next stage. it hangs on detecting hard drive. At this point I can still use the mouse pointer that appears as a wrist wach however I am unable to do anything else. To get out of the installation I have to do a hard restart.
I really dont understand the fine points of installing a OS but it seems to me that if it was a issue with a driver for the cd the installation would not make it through the first stage.
Please correct me if I am wrong.
Just trying to mae some sense of it all and maybe learn a bit along the way.

Thanks for all the help so far.
Marc

Marc,
Yeap, its a driver issue, its the limited amount of

drivers loaded into 9.0

kernel. Hmmmm, did you replace the CDROM with the

same model of the CDROM?

Search on Mandrake for errate on your Hardware

manufacturers. I thought we

were done with this crap years ago........



On Monday 16 December 2002 06:59 am, Marc wrote:

12/13/02 12:18:26 PM, Vasiliy Boulytchev

<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Gentlemen, I have had this error in the past, but I

believe

with FreeBSD 4.6.

I do NOT remember what exactly it was that I did. OH

YEAH!!! I think it was

the CDROM. Believe it or not. Replace the IDE

cdrom,

and install will fly

right through, unbelievable, but im 99 percent sure

thats

what i did,

because Ive swapped a few HDs and it was doing the

same

****. You can at

least try.....

On Friday 13 December 2002 08:31 am, wouter pos

wrote:

I had have the same problem HELP US!!!!

greetings wouter pos

--- Marc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

I have a set of 9.0 CDs that I am shure are good
because
I have used them to install 9.0 on 2 other

machines.

Last
night I went to install mandrake on a friends
machine ,
things seemed to be going well for the first minite
or 2 and
then it hung while on hard drive detection part of
the
installation.
I tried to repeat the installation several times
useing the
reccomended and then the expert mode. I even

tried

to use
Partition Magic to repartiton the hard drive first
still no luck.
This machine allready has windoze 98se installed
on a 60
GB western digital hard drive, Athlon 1.7XP
processor and
256 MB ram I was useing a cd drive installed on

IDE

channel 2 and operating as a slave.
Could this be the problem ?
I have never tried to install off a cd that was a
slave before
however it seems to me that It should be ok.
Any one have any Ideas where this installation is
going
wrong?

Thanks in advance
Marc

I tried switching the CD drive to master, no luck Then

I

replaced the CD drive with a new one fresh out of the box
and still no luck. Tried mandrake 8.2 instead of 9.0 and

still

no luck. I then tried to install 8.1 IT WORKED!!!
After that I tried to upgrade to 9.0 and back to the

same

old story, the installation hung in the same spot again.
Anyone have any idea what is going on and how to fix

it?

Thanks
Marc

--
Vasiliy Boulytchev
Colorado Information Technologies Inc.
(719) 473-2800 x15

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