--- Stephen Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 06:02, Irfan Khan wrote: > > I am facing problems in installing Mandrake 9.0 (I > > don't have 9.1) on a PCChips M787CL+ mainboard > > [http://www.pcchips.com.tw/M787cl+v30.html ] with > 256 > > MB RAM, and 40 GB IDE harddisk. The following > error > > appears: > > error in exec of stage2 :-( > > trying to execute '/usr/bin/runinstall2' from the > > installation volume, the following fatal error > > occurred > > FATA ERROR IN STAGE1: Not a directory > > The CDs and the ISO images are fine (MD5 checked). > > Moreover Knoppix 3.1 boots without any problem, > hence > > no problem with the hardware as such. > > A Google search revealed that a similar problem > was > > reported for VIA Epia 700 C3 mainboard at > > > http://archives.mandrakelinux.com/cooker/2002-09/msg05544.php > > I tried to follow some of the tips, but without > any > > success :( > > Has anyone on this forum tried installing Mandrake > 9.0 > > on M787CL+ mainboard? Is there any method through > > which 9.0 may be installed? > > > > Irfan > > Irfan, are you passing any parameters to the kernel > when you're doing > the installation? What is your partition table setup > - that's going to > help alot - and if you can tell us what size > partitions you're using for > the installation - that would help heaps as well, > mate...Cheers! >
my first few installation attempts were quite 'normal': i inserted Mandrake 9.0 CD#1, and started the computer. a graphical screen appears [F1 for more options; <enter> to install...]. after a few seconds, it displays "Please Wait | Loading program into memory" with a progress bar, and then an error occurs in the very beginning: > > error in exec of stage2 :-( > > trying to execute '/usr/bin/runinstall2' from the > > installation volume, the following fatal error > > occurred > > FATA ERROR IN STAGE1: Not a directory i have reasons to believe that the harddisk is not a problem here; the problem occurs much before it could ask me to partition/format the disk. based on what i read at http://archives.mandrakelinux.com/cooker/2002-09/msg05544.php my understanding is that the M787CL+ reports itself to be a i686 class machine and Mandrake puts in glibc package optimized for i686. only if there is a way to stop this and let Mandrake use glibc for i586. i guess that Mandrake 9.1 may have corrected this, but i cannot download 690+ MB ISOs at the moment. is there some way that Mandrake 9.0 is forced to use glibc for i586? irfan
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