Re: [newbie] Re(newbie)Linux Magazine 8.0 Installation impossible!!Help appreciated
- Original Message - From: Jason Guidry [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Linux-Mandrake Newbie (E-mail) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 3:18 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] Re(newbie)Linux Magazine 8.0 Installation impossible!!Help appreciated MACK , if this was a cover version from news vendor , the disk was corrupt! Do you live in UK or USA? If UK could send a working copy. Let me know *Ouch* well, I guess they tried... anyway, looking at your system specs you may want to be cautious. I installed 8.0 on a system very similar to yours 2 weeks ago, except the only thing that makes it run halfway decent is that the ram was upgraded to 96 MB. would it be a good Idea to install the older kernal (2.2.19) and the older XF86 instead? How is that done again? :0 Installed all O.K. on my PC , is your machine having any other problems? Sometimes it's just a case of every PC being so individual you may need better advice than i can give to see if there may be a specific problem. Hope you can get a good result soon. regards [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [newbie] Re(newbie)Linux Magazine 8.0 Installation impossible!!Help appreciated
MACK , if this was a cover version from news vendor , the disk was corrupt! Do you live in UK or USA? If UK could send a working copy. Let me know *Ouch* well, I guess they tried... anyway, looking at your system specs you may want to be cautious. I installed 8.0 on a system very similar to yours 2 weeks ago, except the only thing that makes it run halfway decent is that the ram was upgraded to 96 MB. would it be a good Idea to install the older kernal (2.2.19) and the older XF86 instead? How is that done again? :0
Re: [newbie] Linux Magazine-8.0 Installation impossible!!Help appreciated
MACK DROFWARC wrote: I just bought 8.0 on Linux magazine's subscription version Linux-Mandrake 8.0 Traktopel-i586 20010418 13:31. I have a smallish harddrive and as such, always format my drive and run ms-dos from disk, then use MSCDEX.exe with oakcdrom.sys and a description of oemcd001 because my computer does not support CD rom booting. I have tried rawrite with th cdrom.img file, and it says the cd does not appear to be an installation CD. Ihave tried a Dos version rawrite unsuccesfully, and I have tried using D:\dosutils\autorun.bat, which is non-existent, that is, my installation instructions pointed me to something that is'nt there! I am running an 808 meg hdd (ouch!), a 32 meg RAM ,44X CD-rom (ATAPI? ithink) and a 188 Pentium MMX. If it is possible for someone smarter than myself to help it would be greatly appreciated! Also, please excuse my typing errors-- its around midnight and i'm burnt out. -- Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Either way, you are going will have to connect an external CD ROM to your computer. Without it the installation will not continue. If this is imposssible, try downloading the entire Mandrake ISO image file from an ftp site and run it from your hard drive. Roman Registered Linux User #179293 su is not the root of your problem but the start of a new journey
Re: [newbie] Linux Magazine-8.0 Installation impossible!!Help appreciated
Romanator wrote: MACK DROFWARC wrote: I am running an 808 meg hdd (ouch!), a 32 meg RAM ,44X CD-rom (ATAPI? ithink) and a 188 Pentium MMX. Either way, you are going will have to connect an external CD ROM to your computer. Without it the installation will not continue. If this is imposssible, try downloading the entire Mandrake ISO image file from an ftp site and run it from your hard drive. I think we misunderstand the problem. He has a CD Rom (listed and based on his reference to MSCDEX) -- I'm not sure it's external, but neither do I see what difference that would make. Randy Kramer
Re: [newbie] Linux Magazine-8.0 Installation impossible!!Help appreciated
On Tuesday 17 July 2001 07:43 pm, Randy Kramer wrote: Romanator wrote: MACK DROFWARC wrote: I am running an 808 meg hdd (ouch!), a 32 meg RAM ,44X CD-rom (ATAPI? ithink) and a 188 Pentium MMX. Either way, you are going will have to connect an external CD ROM to your computer. Without it the installation will not continue. If this is imposssible, try downloading the entire Mandrake ISO image file from an ftp site and run it from your hard drive. I think we misunderstand the problem. He has a CD Rom (listed and based on his reference to MSCDEX) -- I'm not sure it's external, but neither do I see what difference that would make. Randy Kramer Maybe some one else wants to a stab at it? Roman Registered Linux User #179293 su is not the root of your problem but the start of a new journey
Re: [newbie] Linux Magazine-8.0 Installation impossible!!Help appreciated
As I am sure some else will let you know that HTML mail is considered un- polite on this mail list. the reason being is that what we see looks like this below. next i would also urge you to try a different version (maybe redhat 6.X something) with the level of power and hard drive space, you will get an install, but you will not likely be happy (or able to) run Xwindows, much less any program under x. just my opinion. On Tuesday 17 July 2001 02:06, MACK DROFWARC wrote: htmlDIV PBRI just bought 8.0 onnbsp; Linux magazine's subscription version Linux-Mandrake 8.0 Traktopel-i586 20010418 13:31./P PI have a smallish harddrive and as such, always format my drive and run ms-dos from disk, then use MSCDEX.exe with oakcdrom.sys and a description of oemcd001 because my computer does not support CD rom booting. I have tried rawrite with th cdrom.img file, and it says the cd does not appear to be an installation CD./P PIhave tried a Dos version rawrite unsuccesfully, and I have tried using D:\dosutils\autorun.bat, which is non-existent, that is, my installation instructions pointed me to something that is'nt there! /P PI am running an 808 meg hdd (ouch!), a 32 meg RAM ,44X CD-rom (ATAPI? ithink) and a 188 Pentium MMX./P PIf it is possible for someone smarter than myselfnbsp; to help it would be greatly appreciated!/P PAlso, please excuse my typing errors-- its around midnight and i'm burnt out.BRBR/P/DIVbr clear=allhrGet Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at a href=http://www.hotmail.com;http://www.hotmail.com/a.br/p/html
