I have remade the boot floppy from the CD and from downloaded
files from the linux-mandrake site.
The behavior does not change.
At 09:34 PM 7/24/01, you wrote:
>Your machine's getting old, but I have had Mandrake 8.0 working on a similar
>machine. My guess would be that it is bad media.
>Quoting "Kevin R. Bulgrien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>>
>> I have a system that successfully boots Mandrake 7.2...
>>
>> I want to install 8.0 instead, so I have the boot floppy
>> and a bootable CD.
>>
>> I can boot both types of media. All installation choices
>> fail with a hard system hang immediately after the system
>> detects the IDE devices in the system.
>>
>> No error messages are displayed.
>>
>> Win98 works fine, Mandrake 7.2 works fine. What might be
>> causing this low-level failure in the install process.
>> I do not have cutting edge hardware...
>>
>> AMD K6-166, 96MB RAM, Advansys SCSI controller, SMC ISA
>> 10MB NIC, ISA soundblaster AWE 64, ATI XPert 98 PCI video
>> card.
>>
>> All the messages I have seen regarding installation
>> failures seem to imply that other people get farther
>> than I do...
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Kevin R. Bulgrien
>>
>> CPUTYPE=AMD K6-166
>> COMPSPEED=166 MHz
>> MEMRAM=96Mb
>> DRIVES=Western Digital 4GB and Fujitsu 2GB
>> PRINTERS=Canon BJC-600;
>> BIOS=Award Modular BIOS v4.51PG12/04/97
>> DISPLAY=ATI Rage 128 GL SD PCI (English);
>> MULTIMEDIA=Creative AWE64 16-bit Audio (SB16 compatible)
>> CDROM=IDE and SCSI CDWriter on Advansys SCSI card
>> MODEM=Zoom External 56K LT Voice Faxmodem;Zoom External 56K LT Voice
>> Faxmodem;
>> NETCARD=ISA SMC EtherEZ (8416);
>> MONITOR=Super VGA 1280x1024;
>> KEYBOARD=Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural Keyboar
