--- Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 06:02, Irfan Khan wrote:
I am facing problems in installing Mandrake 9.0 (I
don't have 9.1) on a PCChips M787CL+ mainboard
[http://www.pcchips.com.tw/M787cl+v30.html ] with
256
MB RAM, and 40 GB IDE harddisk. The following
error
appears:
error in exec of stage2 :-(
trying to execute '/usr/bin/runinstall2' from the
installation volume, the following fatal error
occurred
FATA ERROR IN STAGE1: Not a directory
The CDs and the ISO images are fine (MD5 checked).
Moreover Knoppix 3.1 boots without any problem,
hence
no problem with the hardware as such.
A Google search revealed that a similar problem
was
reported for VIA Epia 700 C3 mainboard at
http://archives.mandrakelinux.com/cooker/2002-09/msg05544.php
I tried to follow some of the tips, but without
any
success :(
Has anyone on this forum tried installing Mandrake
9.0
on M787CL+ mainboard? Is there any method through
which 9.0 may be installed?
Irfan
Irfan, are you passing any parameters to the kernel
when you're doing
the installation? What is your partition table setup
- that's going to
help alot - and if you can tell us what size
partitions you're using for
the installation - that would help heaps as well,
mate...Cheers!
my first few installation attempts were quite
'normal': i inserted Mandrake 9.0 CD#1, and started
the computer. a graphical screen appears [F1 for more
options; enter to install...]. after a few seconds,
it displays Please Wait | Loading program into
memory with a progress bar, and then an error occurs
in the very beginning:
error in exec of stage2 :-(
trying to execute '/usr/bin/runinstall2' from the
installation volume, the following fatal error
occurred
FATA ERROR IN STAGE1: Not a directory
i have reasons to believe that the harddisk is not a
problem here; the problem occurs much before it could
ask me to partition/format the disk.
based on what i read at
http://archives.mandrakelinux.com/cooker/2002-09/msg05544.php
my understanding is that the M787CL+ reports itself to
be a i686 class machine and Mandrake puts in glibc
package optimized for i686. only if there is a way to
stop this and let Mandrake use glibc for i586. i guess
that Mandrake 9.1 may have corrected this, but i
cannot download 690+ MB ISOs at the moment.
is there some way that Mandrake 9.0 is forced to use
glibc for i586?
irfan
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
