Thanks Steve But:
I removed all peripheral cards including network, sound, scsi, removed
all drives except primary HD and CD, so the machine has no expansion
slots filled, just the IDE controller on the motherboard, get to the
same place and get the same error "An error occurred during step
"configure X" of the install. Options are previous, retry, and menu.
Previous re-installs the boot loader, retry does nothing, and the menu
states everything is complete except Configure X. Video is on the
Motherboard, standard S3 nothing fancy.
Maybe a problem with the Source CD???? or is there anything else I can
try? is there a way to begin the X configure after booting into the
linux shell instead of during the install?
Thanks in advance,
John
-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Britton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2000 7:31 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: [newbie] Configure X Error
Hummm. I just installed Mandrake on an Gateway with a similar
configuration. When you first described the problem, I was thinking
that maybe you were trying to use a 486 or some crazy configuration,
but you do have a good machine for Linux, and it should work.
I'm not sure how much help I can provide you. But this is what I would
do. Your problem appears to be hard drive related. For the install
I would remove one of the two hard drives. I think this is where
the installer is getting confused. You can always add the second
drive after the install (Yet another adventure :-)
Then try booting from the floppy again, but this time select a pre-
configured option, like Work Station or Server. This option will
automatically partition your hard drive. DO NOT choose "Custom"
which would require you to manually partition the drive. If the
pre-configuration option doesn't add everything you want you always
add programs later.
Hope this helps. Let me know how everything turns out.
- Steve
On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, John Morris wrote:
> Additional Info
>
> Machine: HP Pavillion 7125 P133 64 megs ram
> Graphics: S3 2megs vram
> IDE Drives (2) 1.6 gig for boot (/), 2.1 gig for swap and /home
>
> Boot from floppy since CD is not available for boot
> Machine is dedicated to Linux, nothing else on either drive
>
> Thanks,
>
> John
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Britton [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2000 3:51 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [newbie] Configure X Error
>
> I'm a Mandrake newbie myself, but I have installed it on three
> different machines without any problems. Could you give me more
> info about the machine you are trying to install Linux on. The
> type of hard drive (IDE or SCSI), the brand of video card (like
> S3 Virge, Diamond Fire, Matrox, etc., and the amount of VRAM on
> it), and how are you trying to boot? Are you trying to boot from
> a floppy and then using a CD-ROM or are you trying to boot
> from the CD.
>
> And lastly, are you going to run Linux off a partitioned drive -
> a machine with both Windows and Linux - or is this on a machine
> that will be devoted solely to Linux.
>
> - Steve
>
>
>
> On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, John Morris wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Brand new to Linux, I have unsuccessfuly tried to install
> several times
> > but halt at the following:
> >
> > Autoprobe of NIC (decieded to not install network to get
> installation
> > finished)
> >
> > Configure X error only allowing me to return to the previous
> step which
> > is boot loader.
> >
> > I am installing native, not other operating system and have
> tried both
> > Master boot record and First sector of boot partition but can
> not get
> > past the Configure X error.
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
>
