On Fri, 14 Apr 2000 11:06:45 +0000, you wrote:
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>Hello Gurus,
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>I have successfully installed the OS onto one machine here at work. I am now
>trying to do the same for a second machine.
>
>After booting from floppy I press Return to start booting the install, it gets
>as far as a blue Message box that says Initializing CDROM then I get ...
The problem seems to be your cdrom drive. Most likely it is either
just incompatible, or has some problems. If there are any hardware
problems with a system, Linux will find them. Prob all that you need
to do is swap out the cdrom drive with the one you already installed
Madrake to and it should go ok.
Dennis
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>in second stage install
>_X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
>_X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
>Fri Apr 14 10:54:46 2000 Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0 at
>/usr/bin/perl-install/my_gtk.pm line 139.
>install exited abnormally
>sending termination signals...done
>sending kill signals...done
>unmounting filesystems...
> /tmp/rhimage
> /proc
>you may safely reboot your system
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>I have tried to booting from both CD and Floppy, removing the SCSI devices,
>using two alternate video cards (including one from the working machine) and
>removing the mouse (it was the last thing detected on virtual session 3)
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>Can I install using the command line only ? or using a character based script
>rather than the X windows one that appears to be failing ?
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>Can I get at the log files that are mentioned on screen 3 (* extra log messages
>are enabled) ?
>
>If you have any ideas, then I'd appreciate them...
>
>Iain.
>
