I just had a thought, when I installed XP I formatted the disk to a FAT32 not NTFS.As I was looking for a solution o this problem a recuring theme keeps popping up, that is that all the installation pages all talk of NTFS.... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anne Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2004 3:50 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Fw: 9.2
> On Sunday 11 January 2004 15:41, P J Scott wrote: > > The pc was built by a company called Richolu.It is an xp2600 and a > > AMD Athlon chip with an ASROCK motherboard running an SIS 746fx > > chipset. I have 512 mb of kingston ddr memory. A Nvidia gforce 4 > > 128 mb Graphics card.. It has a 52x cd writer and a 16x dvd rom > > drive. Sound is onboard and is 5.1-ch audio. > > The Bios is American megatrends and the screen says the Ami bios is > > (c) 2003 American megatrends K7s8x Bios p1.90 acpi compliant bios. > > As for the next screen it is too fast and it will not pause so what > > is on there I have no idea. I hope this is a help. It is so > > frustrating not even allowed to install Linux... Philip > > Philip, googling for 'ASROCK linux' took me to a thread in which it > seems that RedHat had been installed, but with a lot of problems. > Apparently it needs NOAPIC to function currectly. This can be passed > as a parameter at install time. > > Please will someone give Philip exact instructions on how to do this? > > Anne > -- > Registered Linux User No.293302 > Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
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