Christopher Seaman wrote:
>
> hello all,
>
> trying to install Mandrake 7.2 on my Sony 505FX. I
> couldn't get the CD to recognize the CDROM drive it
> was booting off of at first (Sony CD5, pcmcia card)
> until I found the 'ide2 = 0x180,0x386' voodoo.
>
> now I'm at a different impass. the CD boots fine
> and finds the second stage ramdisk, but insists on
> starting up pcmcia services during the 'looking for
> hard drives' portion of the install. This would be
> great except that the install freezes at this point,
> never to return. I remember an option on Mandrake 7.0
> which would disable pcmcia during installation, this
> would solve my problem!
>
> Is there any way to use this option in the current
> release? Or another way workaround the problem?
>
> all thoughts appreciated,
> chris seaman
>
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I haven't had this problem, but my first thought is can
you turn your pcmcia off in the BIOS settings?
Barry :-)
