On Thursday 13 Mar 2003 12:26 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Thursday 13 Mar 2003 12:20 pm, Leendert wrote: > > Yes!! Solved it. Here is the solution: > > 1: Boot from the Mandrake CD and get to DiskDrake > > 2: Delete the partition you want linux to be installed, leave it FREE > > 3: Let DiskDrake save the partitionmap, it will now come with 2 errors: > > No swap and no linux partition, ignore them, and press the RESET button > > on your computer (if you don't have one just plug out the power cable > > ;-). 4: Boot from the CD again. Now you won't get that "not enough free > > space for bootstrap error". Open diskdrake to make your partitions. > > You'll see it has added the bootloader automaticly now! Now just make > > your partitions (1 swap, 1 linux) and install. > > 5: after restart press "l" to start linux, and you WON'T see this error > > again: > > > > Please wait, loading kernel... > > hd:13,/vmlinuz-2.4.17-17mdk: Unknown or corrupt filesystem > > boot: > > > > If you see it, you've probably not correctly followed the steps above > > and/or made a bootstrap yourself... > > > > -Leendert > > Glad to hear you solved it, Leendert, and your info may help someone else > with a similar problem. > > Just one thing - you might not want to re-install at this stage, but it's > worth bearing in mind that if you have a separate /home partition you will > not lose your data if you re-install or update your installation. > > Anne
And one last thing Leendert. Do you realise Mandrake 9.1 for Power PC is due to be released within a few days? It has a *lot* of improvements over 8.2. Images of the 'Release Candidate' are already available on the mirrors. Have fun with your new OS :-) derek -- ---------------------------------- www.jennings.homelinux.net
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