hi ashley, have you searched the archives recently? there was a thread a while ago about installing on 486s and one of the issues thrown up was memory, specifically the amount and also the bios settings, i have an old homebrew 486 with 12mb memory and even though i can install apparently fine i still find things that are wrong with the installation, i can't remember any more - sorry, if you do succeed i would suggest avoiding installing X if you can, on my machine this insisted on installing kde and gnome files even though running either on the machine is like swimming through treacle! also the X configuration routine would mess up the install nearly everytime bascule Ashley Moore wrote: > > Hi, firstly please read the complete message before replying :-) > > Can anyone tell me how to perform a harddisk install. > > I have a Compaq Contura 410c - 486 DX2 50 / 8 Mb RAM / 2 GB HDD / Color > VGA. > No internal CDROM. So I connect an external CDROM thru the paralled port on > an Onspec controller. I download and burnt the 'AIR-486' image. The 2 BG is > partitioned as 650 MB FAT, remaining blank for LM install. I copied the > contents of the /Mandrake/Base and Mandrake/RPMS directories into > appropriate directories on the FAT partition thru DOS. I found > 'harddisk.bat' in the /dosutils/autoboot directory of the cd. When I run > this from the HD, I am asked to specify where the Mandrake/base and > Mandrake/RPMS directories are. After this I get a 'Stage 2 failed' message. > > I don't know if I'm doing the right thing. Has anyone performed a HD > install of this version, that can guide me thru the initial details. > I also tried running the 'autoboot.bat' off the CD. It copies a couple of > files and then exits into 'c:\Mandrake'. On examinzation of the batch file > I found it was trying to invoke 'cdrom.bat', which I guess fails as the > CDROM is on the parallel port. > > Also does anyone know of a 'paride.img' which I had found on a site (can't > remeber where), but that was for RH 5.2. That image gives the option of > selecting a parallel port cd for install media. > > Ashley Moore.
