did you try removing all hardware not absolutly necessary for an install? like sound cards /network carts and stuff, add them later.. I had a system that would not install with the sound card in... I took everything out of the PC, loaded linux put the cards back in and set them up, worked fine.. Also, if its a possible hardware issue, it mighten hurt to download the latest motherboard bios, Asus are pretty good at supplying newer bios's for old boards so you might be in luck... rgds Frank -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kevin Rich Sent: Sunday, 2 September 2001 4:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Pure install from hd (no boot floppy) how? Hi all, I have an older p200 asus system (with name brand components) that the MDK 8.1 beta install program has some problem with, as do other versions of the MDK install (7.2 onward). After it starts reading the media (cd rom, or hd where ever I have mdk) I get "error in exec of stage2 :-( FATAL ERROR IN STAGE1: Not a directory I can't recover from this You may reboot your computer" To get MDK 8 installed i had to stick that drive in my other computer for the install. No matter what method I choose it will crash during install. I've tried 1) copy to hard drive option, then rawwrite hd.img to floppy and boot etc (stage1 error). 2) copy to hd, use autoboot.bat option (8.1 beta has no autoboot, but tried on older mkd, it has problems reading my cd) 3) make cd boot disk, then install from cd (stage1 error) 4)boot from cd, (stage1 error) So what I want to do is just install mandrake without any other media being involved (copy to hard drive straight install from hd, no floppy or cd necessary) and that should do the trick. But I don't know how to do this...i've glanced at the contents of the boot cds but don't see anyway to run any kind of install manually..... I was thinking I could boot into mandrake, then try to install on another partition....but don't know how to start the isntall w/o floppy etc...anyone know how? Thanks for any help, this is a machine i use for devel and I really hope i can figure out a way to get this installed, without yanking the driving or randomly swapping components. Ty __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email alerts & NEW webcam video instant messaging with Yahoo! Messenger http://im.yahoo.com
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