Nope, definitely not a single-cd install cd. It's the same cd that, if
I pop it in the computer right beside this one, will pop up the prompt
for the other cd's. Any ideas?
- Isaac
Michael D. Viron wrote:
> Anguo and Isaac,
>
> Usually this is because it is part of a single CD install distributed with
> a magazine (not always, but usually). If this is the case, and you have a
> fast enough connection plus a cd burner, download the iso's off the ftp
> site and burn them to CD. If not, buy them from one of the online
> e-tailers for cheap ( usually $5 or $6 US).
>
> I've installed Mandrake 7.2 and 8.0 on everything from a P75 up to a PII,
> and it has always asked after the second CD, so it's not because of the
> hardware.
>
> Michael
>
> --
> Michael Viron
> Registered Linux User #81978
> Senior Systems & Administration Consultant
> Web Spinners, University of West Florida
>
> At 10:14 PM 08/28/2001 +0800, you wrote:
>
>>I had the same problem as you.
>>
>>On a pentium 120mhz 32mb ram, the install didn't ask for the second cd. I
>>
> did
>
>>run mandrake but many applications were missing and software manager
>>
> wouldn't
>
>>run on such low resources.
>>
>>On a duron 750mhz 256mb ram, I had no such problem.
>>
>>I guess there's no way around it. Just install manually what you need on
>>
> your
>
>>old box.
>>
>>Anguo
>>
>>
>>
>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] banged on their keyboard and produced the following
>>arrangement of letters:
>>- I'm reinstalling 7.2 on a pretty old box ("Eve" - 266 MHz PII, 32MB Ram,
>>junker - Everex Monitor, etc) and I am not getting asked whether or not I
>>have the other - cds (I have the boxed version with 7 cds). I started an
>>install on the - computer right beside it ("Speedy Gonzalez" - 866MHz PIII,
>>256 MB Ram, etc) and - I got prompted about the other cds right off without
>>any trouble. So my - problem is I can't install all the packages and
>>software I want and need - because it doesn't ask me for the other cds that
>>are ready and waiting to be - used. Two points of note:
>>-
>>- 1. It did the same thing the first time I installed it (on "Eve", "Speedy"
>>was - and has always been fine), I just want to take advantage of this
>>reinstall to - get it right. (original install was a week or so ago, for
>>what it's worth) -
>>- and 2. I get warned about being low on system resources at the beginning
>>of - the install, but I completed it with the graphical installation when I
>>- originally installed the system, even tested X a few times without ever -
>>hanging. I can go through a text install but I don't get prompted for it
>>there - either.
>>-
>>- Any ideas?
>>-
>>- Regards,
>>- Isaac
>>-
>>-
>>-
>>- "We are convinced that freedom without socialism is privilege and
>>injustice, - and that socialism without freedom is slavery and brutality."
>>-
>>- - Mikhail Bakunin (www.infoshop.org/faq)
>>-
>>-
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