Stupid question alert!
Are you installing from a CDR/W drive or an old fashioned ROM drive? I've
had no luck what so ever installing from my PLEXTOR 16/10/40a (ATAPI) and
I've tried both LM 8.1 and RH 7.2. My cheezy/generic PINE 52x CD-ROM drive
has very few troubles however. I don't know if this is even vaguely
relevant but even if I could get either to install they wouldn't "fully"
boot, they'd get to some point and seize and it would be a different point
each time. Tried it with ext2 and ext3 with BOTH distros. Don't know if
this helps hurts or makes no difference one way or another but anyway just
in case my experiences are now on record.
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Separate issue I still need help with...
BTW I still haven't been able to get my PC-ZIP100 to work with either
distro, it shows on the desktop[s] but I can't access it. I get something
about device unmountable and that I need to specify the file system type.
Mobo= Asus P3V4X revision 1.00, I'm afraid to flash it in case it hurls
HDD = Old Maxtor 8 gig, UDMA 33 family, ,5400RPM spindle
Ribbon Cable = 80 pin type AKA UDMA 66/100
Zip Drive = NEC PC - 100
Linux' I've tried = LM 8.1 (8.0 won't boot, gets to "loading Font XServer"
and freezes, & Red Hat 7.2 ($60 version).
I know I need to send more info, please specify what that is and I will.
T H A N K Y O U
James R. McKenzie
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From: "Aaron Peterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
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Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 3:59 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie]
> I haven't found any info yet.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mandrake7" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "'Aaron Peterson'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 8:54 AM
> Subject: RE: [newbie]
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> Yes I have the same problem it cant make a ramdisk and when I amlooking
> in the log said the same thinks 4>hdb: drive not ready for command
> <4>isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev=3.40, iso_blknum=151339
> and other stuff like this I am using a via chipset and a dvd rom gd2500
> any solutions?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Aaron Peterson
> Sent: &Kgr;&ugr;&rgr;&igr;&agr;&kgr;&eeacgr;, 11 &Ngr;&ogr;&egr;&mgr;&bgr;&rgr;&iacgr;&ogr;&ugr; 2001 1:27 &pgr;&mgr;
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [newbie]
>
> Hello,
>
> This is a problem I haven't been able to solve.
>
> Hi. I'm very new to Linux so I bought the 3 CD pack for Mandrake 8.1
> expecting the installation to be pretty much trouble free.
> Unfortuantely,
> after the initial setup/ welcome screen using the boot disk and bootable
> CD-ROM, the setup said that it couldn't find an installation CD in the
> CD-ROM. The error message is as follows:
> "I can't access a Mandrake-Linux Installation disk in your CDROM Drive".
> By looking in the setup log I also saw some of these messages:
> <4>ide0: Drive 1 didn't accept speed setting, Oh well
> <4>hdb: Status timed-out
> <4>hdb: DMA Disabled
> <4>hdb: drive not ready for command
> <4>isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev=3.40, iso_blknum=151339
> and other stuff like this
>
> If you guys don't know of any solutions off the top of your heads then I
> guess I'll see if we can get it up and runing at the Installfest.
> Thanks.
>
> /////////
> He has a DFI motherboard with Award BIOS. bios version is current.
>
> CD rom is primary slave, HD is primary master
>
> This problem also occurs when using RedHat 7.2 and Mandrake 8.1 We
> tried
> two copies of the installmedia, so the disk wasn't bad.
>
> Demo Linux boots just fine off of the CD-Rom.
>
> /////////
>
>
> First of all, thanks for getting back to me so quickly. I built the
> computer myself and currently I have Win 98 and Win 2K on two seperate
> primary partitions. Then I used PartitionMagic 5.0 to create a Linux
> partition. Anyway, the CD-ROM is bootable, but since I was having
> trouble
> with just booting off the CD-ROM I tried it again with a bootdisk. I
> think
> that I'm using the cdrom.img file if that is what you mean by the image
> file
> - the actual CD is from MandrakeSoft. Also, windows has no trouble
> booting
> from the CD-ROM. I got an email from Eric Sandall and I asked him what
> the
> situation is with getting rides to the Installfest and what all
> peripherials
> we need to bring. I can bring my Mandrake 8.1 CD's, but do I need to
> bring
> anything else besides my tower (i.e. monitor, keyboard, mouse)? Anyway,
> thanks for the help.
>
> Travis Chamberlain
> ======================
> Travis Chamberlain
>
>
> >From: "Aaron Peterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Reply-To: "Aaron Peterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: "Travis Chamberlain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Subject: Re: [LUG] Mandrake 8.1 installation problem
> >Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 03:36:29 -0800
> >
> >boot disk and bootable
> > > CD-ROM,
> >
> >a boot disk is not required with a bootable CD-ROM
> >
> >newer Computers can boot from the CD-rom.
> >
> >go into the bios to enable boot off CDt.
> >delete or a function key will get you into the bios.
> >
> >(good stuff to include in any request for help)
> >What disk image did you use?
> >What kind of computer do you have?
> >
> >-installfest is on 11-14-2001 we can help more then.
> >
> >Oh, for trouble shooting... does your windows cd boot?
>
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