On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 09:30:23 +0000 Benjamin Jeeves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:
> > Had my Laptop work until I made a time that it was time to reinstall > Mandrake 8.0 now I can not install any version of Mandrake, RedHat > this is what I get? > > The Laptop is Compaq Armada 3500, PII 266, 128MB RAM. > > RAMDISK: Compressed format (err=1)<6>Freeing initrd memory: 286k freed > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:03 > > I think it is the cd/dvd player that is the problem have a UBS bruner > but can not get it to boot from that drive. you could try booting from a floppy instead, Mandrake has floppy images for download, but I have doubts you'll be able to find one for 8.0. It actually sounds more like either a hard-drive or memory error, however. If it was the CD drive, it would *usually* be more of an "all or nothing" type of problem, ie. it wouldn't boot at all. Try the boot floppy and install 9.1 if you can, but I wouldn't recommend KDE or Gnome on that dinosaur! If push comes to shove, the last resort is to do a network install, which I did with my webserver, and there is a special boot floppy for that too! worked like a charm, it did! :) Check out the Mandrake site under "Installation Instructions" I believe. > The Problem is that I am doing a design show for my dissertation which > was develop on Linux Mandrake. The show is next Wed at my Uni was > hoping for so help from you people might be able to help on this > problem. Ouch! -- Joehill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net 09:01:40 up 6 days, 7:05, 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
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