Um...that CD-RW was a BIG thing to forget to mention. :) Try booting the
CD with a regular CDROM and I think you'll find that Mandrake will install
just fine.
The thing I was thinking about that RAM though was sometimes Mandrake
won't recognize RAM above 64MB. I was wondering maybe the install program
was having the same difficulty. As I said before, I can't be certain. It
was just something I was thinking about. I'm not at all surprised that
Win2K and 98 didn't have any problem with your hardware. That's how
they're made. That strength is also their biggest weakness. Overall
compatability.
Anyway, CD-RW's are not the same kind of CD hardware in that they 'read'
somewhat differently. In some instances they won't read regular data CD's
because of the formatting. An example of this is a re-writable CD is a
data CD that can only be read by the CD-RW that wrote the CD. A regular
CDROM will not be able to read that format. I think this quirk goes both
ways, although I could be mistaken.
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On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Paul wrote:
> what I forgot to mention is that when I built the computer 3 months ago, a friend
> of my, a linux guru unstalled a copy of Mandrake for me and it was working fine,
> since then he got rid of it and I installed win2k and win98 on a clean "run..."
> RAM is PC100, brand new, major brand... no problems with athlons...
> (sigh) so frustrating... the only new thing that has changed since that first
> installation of Mandrake is that I added a CD-RW drive which is now the main boot
> CD drive...
>
> Abe wrote:
>
> > re-seating the ram is worth a shot but this problem shouldn't have anything to
> > do with the amount of ram in the system. I've got a machine with 256M that
> > installed 7.1 just fine. My other box has 384M and it also installed just
> > fine.
> >
> > What kind of ram is it? pc-100? pc-133? How new/old is it? I've read that
> > Athlon systems can be picky about older/generic ram. I haven't had any
> > problems with my generic ram though.
> >
> > Try reseating the ram, try cleaning the connecting pins, make sure the ram
> > modules are installed in order in the slots on the motherboard.
> >
> > Good luck!
> >
> > Abe
> >
> > >===== Original Message From Mark Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> =====
> > >It sounds like you've got yourself a hardware problem. While I can't be
> > >100% certain what exactly it is. At first glance though I see you have a
> > >HUGE amount of RAM. Just a thought though. Try taking one of those 128MB
> > >chips out and then try the install again and see what happens. I'm not
> > >sure I can explain this craziness, I just have a feeling.
> > >
> > >--
> > >Mark
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> > >On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Paul wrote:
> > >
> > >> hey all,
> > >> just burned the CDs... boot with the first one, welcomed by a 'welcome'
> > >> message, hit enter... it's scanning SCSI stuff, CD-ROM, then it's says it's
> > >> loading second stage RAMDISK, it reaches the end, and the error message
> > >> pops up: error loading RAMDISK... and I get a blinking cursor at the
> > >> bottom... :(
> > >> they say Windoze is frustrating... sigh
> > >>
> > >> my specs:
> > >> Athlon 750 (not Thunderbird)
> > >> Abit KA7
> > >> 256MB RAM
> > >> Win2k(24GB), Win98(2GB) Partitions, 4GB unPartitioned
> > >> PioneerDVD 10x, Creative CD-RW 4x2x24 (install/boot from this one...)
> > >> Elsa - GeForce2
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> >
> > Jesus saves,
> > Allah forgives,
> > Chthulu thinks you'd make a nice sandwich.
>
>
>
