John....do a custom install and deselect the X-servers and
gui's.
Alan
John Morris wrote:
>
> 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.
> > >
> >
