Re: [newbie] Installation problem - ?disc not being read
Well - I have an install - did not get GUI up so obviously have a couple of things to sort out. LILO worked great - so thank you to those who helped. I'll reboot to Mdk and see what I can work out. Printer is perfect! Thanks Rosemary Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Monday 07 February 2005 23:25, you wrote: Sometimes it refuses to boot from CD1, in that case try CD2, it'll prompt you to change disks later on. BTW two things : 1. please don't post in html. Most people here filter html-messages out before they get read. 2. please remove your reply to field in your mailer. If not, messages will go to you only, not this list. Welcome to Linux, Rosemary. Thanks Kaj Hope I've got the settings correct this time. I'll let the list know how I get on with the insertion of CD2, but realise I need to be sure about a couple of other things first. I'll post separately. Thanks again Rosemary You are welcome, Rosemary. A small advice : you can find some useful information here : http://doc.mandrakelinux.com/MandrakeLinux/100/en/Starter.html/bigfat-warning.html Kaj haulrich. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installation problem - ?disc not being read
On Monday 07 February 2005 04:40, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Kaj Haulrich wrote: happens. I rebooted with disc in situ and get the window with the two options press F1' and enter to install Looked at F1 and then pressed enter. It appeared to start installing but then the monitor went black, with the words proceeding, please wait ... I waited 20 mins but no activity apparent i.e. no noise from box, and the indicator light not lit. How long should I wait? Could it be my BIOS settings still. Any help greatly appreciated. Thanks Rosemary Eh... forgive me if I ask a dumb question, Rosemary : You aren't by any chance trying to install Mandrake from within Windows, right ? The part that gives me such notions is : I put the first disc in and the options highlight when I hover the cursor. Clicking on the right hand options of discover on line store, receive assistance and 'keep your computer up to date' cause Firefox to load and a request to connect to internet. In order to install a new operating system, you'll have to shut down the 'puter, place the install CD in the cupholder and power on. Then, you will not have any cursor, firefox, discover or assistance messages until the whole caboodle is up and running. Instead you'll see an old-fashioned text screen reading something like In second stage install. If I'm totally wrong, please ignore this post. I didn't mean to insult you. Yes - I was initially then realised I needed to reboot and did so - see above. How long should that process take? I'll have another try anway. Thanks for replying. Rosemary Sorry for misreading you, Rosemary The boot process on a relatively new system will start almost immediately, and the whole install-procedure anywhere between 15 minutes and several hours, depending on the amount of applications you want to install. Sometimes it refuses to boot from CD1, in that case try CD2, it'll prompt you to change disks later on. BTW two things : 1. please don't post in html. Most people here filter html-messages out before they get read. 2. please remove your reply to field in your mailer. If not, messages will go to you only, not this list. Welcome to Linux, Rosemary. Kaj Haulrich. -- *sent from a 100% Microsoft-free workstation* * http://haulrich.net * *Running Linux (Mandrake 10.1) - kernel 2.6.8* Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installation problem - ?disc not being read
On Monday 07 February 2005 23:25, you wrote: Sometimes it refuses to boot from CD1, in that case try CD2, it'll prompt you to change disks later on. BTW two things : 1. please don't post in html. Most people here filter html-messages out before they get read. 2. please remove your reply to field in your mailer. If not, messages will go to you only, not this list. Welcome to Linux, Rosemary. Thanks Kaj Hope I've got the settings correct this time. I'll let the list know how I get on with the insertion of CD2, but realise I need to be sure about a couple of other things first. I'll post separately. Thanks again Rosemary You are welcome, Rosemary. A small advice : you can find some useful information here : http://doc.mandrakelinux.com/MandrakeLinux/100/en/Starter.html/bigfat-warning.html Kaj haulrich. -- *sent from a 100% Microsoft-free workstation* * http://haulrich.net * *Running Linux (Mandrake 10.1) - kernel 2.6.8* Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Installation problem - ?disc not being read
Hi I am attempting to install Mandrake 10.1 on an AMD Athlon 2000+ running WinXP. I've been to hardware devices list but little detail as it was a 'pre-packaged' system. Display adapter VIA/S3G, legacy audio drivers. I put the first disc in and the options highlight when I hover the cursor. Clicking on the right hand options of discover on line store, receive assistance and 'keep your computer up to date' cause Firefox to load and a request to connect to internet. Clicking on left hand options, including 'install' nothing happens. I rebooted with disc in situ and get the window with the two options press F1' and enter to install Looked at F1 and then pressed enter. It appeared to start installing but then the monitor went black, with the words proceeding, please wait ... I waited 20 mins but no activity apparent i.e. no noise from box, and the indicator light not lit. How long should I wait? Could it be my BIOS settings still. The installation instructions mention PNP OS or Plug and Play OS, but I have been through the options in the BIOS and none match this. The two closest are CPU PnP SetUP and PCI Plug and Play SetUp and they both have a range of options. Any help greatly appreciated. Thanks Rosemary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] installation problem
On Sunday 23 Jan 2005 16:35, Cyber Killer wrote: I see that my post got lost in the discussion, so here goes again... I got the 10.1 official download dvd. Everything burned OK. I boot the comp, I see the splash screen, I press F2, type expert, [enter]. The kernel loads And that's all - I'm left with a blank screen, and nothing else happens. Does the same happen if you let it run on automatic? I had the same problem with 10.0, but then I thought I just burned the cd's wrong. Anyway, it all works fine on an another computer. I would suppse by the process of elimination you know what it's not. Have you tried asking in the expert conference? Differences between the 9.2 and the 10.1?? I tried all (at least I think they were all) install option - noauto, text, ect... but it didn't help. The last mandrake release working on my computer was 9.2. Here is a list of my hardware: cpu: P4 1700 ram: 256 MB RAMBUS gfx: Radeon 7200 64 MB snd: SB Live! Player 1024 hdd: Seagate Barracuda 7200 120 GB dvd: LG GDR-8162B cdrw: LG GCE-8524B lan: Realtek RTL8139 + some stuff connected to USB, a scanner, a printer,... Can sbd help me with this? Will 9.2 go back on at all? Will any other version work, such as 10.0? Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] installation problem
I see that my post got lost in the discussion, so here goes again... I got the 10.1 official download dvd. Everything burned OK. I boot the comp, I see the splash screen, I press F2, type expert, [enter]. The kernel loads And that's all - I'm left with a blank screen, and nothing else happens. I had the same problem with 10.0, but then I thought I just burned the cd's wrong. Anyway, it all works fine on an another computer. I tried all (at least I think they were all) install option - noauto, text, ect... but it didn't help. The last mandrake release working on my computer was 9.2. Here is a list of my hardware: cpu: P4 1700 ram: 256 MB RAMBUS gfx: Radeon 7200 64 MB snd: SB Live! Player 1024 hdd: Seagate Barracuda 7200 120 GB dvd: LG GDR-8162B cdrw: LG GCE-8524B lan: Realtek RTL8139 + some stuff connected to USB, a scanner, a printer,... Can sbd help me with this? -- Cyber Killer mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tlen.pl: [EMAIL PROTECTED] gg: 2935777 yahoo: cyber_killer4 When the last tree is cut, the last river poisoned, and the last fish dead, we will discover that we can't eat money. www.greenpeace.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] installation problem
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 23 Jan 2005 16:35, Cyber Killer wrote: Seagate Barracuda 7200 120 GB That's a SATA disk, I think? You might like to search the archives for booting from SATA disks Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFB89T3kFAvMr/nNX8RAv9hAJ9d3IEJp4vO99uErEU5q8JpLl6yhwCdEKk4 BqPYfqcX2VQZhqPkMCc2/N8= =3DNM -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] installation problem
Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 23 Jan 2005 16:35, Cyber Killer wrote: Seagate Barracuda 7200 120 GB That's a SATA disk, I think? You might like to search the archives for booting from SATA disks no, it's not SATA, it's a standard ATA133 hdd -- Cyber Killer mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tlen.pl: [EMAIL PROTECTED] gg: 2935777 yahoo: cyber_killer4 When the last tree is cut, the last river poisoned, and the last fish dead, we will discover that we can't eat money. www.greenpeace.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] installation problem
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 23 Jan 2005 17:01, Cyber Killer wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 23 Jan 2005 16:35, Cyber Killer wrote: Seagate Barracuda 7200 120 GB That's a SATA disk, I think? You might like to search the archives for booting from SATA disks no, it's not SATA, it's a standard ATA133 hdd OK - that rules that out, then. Have you tried passing the various settings for acpi? When you get the lilo screen, hit Esc and type linux acpi=off (or on, if that doesn't work. In theory it shouldn't be necessary, but one of my boxes will only work if I set acpi=on) You can also try 'noapic' and 'nolapic' if the acpi settings don't cure it. If you find that one of them does work you can then add it to lilo so that you don't have to do it every time. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFB89p8kFAvMr/nNX8RArchAJ4xjwsCs0xlKbkxXvBUE9h5uWs9+wCfYk1B B19imuvM85rfwoN7PwcoQPU= =F9wB -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] installation problem
On Sunday 23 Jan 2005 16:35, Cyber Killer wrote: Here is a list of my hardware: cpu: P4 1700 ram: 256 MB RAMBUS gfx: Radeon 7200 64 MB snd: SB Live! Player 1024 hdd: Seagate Barracuda 7200 120 GB dvd: LG GDR-8162B cdrw: LG GCE-8524B lan: Realtek RTL8139 + some stuff connected to USB, a scanner, a printer,... Can sbd help me with this? My Mandrake 10 machine spec is very similar to yours, except for the Radeon graphics card. Are you able to pop that out and try another video card at all? Have you tried having unplugged your extra USB things incase there is a problem there?? Cheers, Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] installation problem
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 23 Jan 2005 17:30, Elwyn wrote: On Sunday 23 Jan 2005 16:35, Cyber Killer wrote: Here is a list of my hardware: Have you tried having unplugged your extra USB things incase there is a problem there?? That's a good point. Setting them up later may be a better option. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFB8+DekFAvMr/nNX8RApVkAJ49UxIqSevU10/9S6AMxame5b/zLQCfYNb5 gm+Ok5JknYL/FDt9TD4h3RI= =pfKi -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] installation problem
On Sunday 23 Jan 2005 16:35, Cyber Killer wrote: + some stuff connected to USB, a scanner, a printer,... http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7320page=3 This chap has written a review on Mandrake 10 and has stated he's had problems with the Hotplug feature... Usb Devices?? Cheers, Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] installation problem
I got the 10.1 official download dvd. Everything burned OK. I boot the comp, I see the splash screen, I press F2, type expert, [enter]. The kernel loads And that's all - I'm left with a blank screen, and nothing else happens. I had the same problem with 10.0, but then I thought I just burned the cd's wrong. Anyway, it all works fine on an another computer. I tried all (at least I think they were all) install option - noauto, text, ect... but it didn't help. The last mandrake release working on my computer was 9.2. Here is a list of my hardware: cpu: P4 1700 ram: 256 MB RAMBUS gfx: Radeon 7200 64 MB snd: SB Live! Player 1024 hdd: Seagate Barracuda 7200 120 GB dvd: LG GDR-8162B cdrw: LG GCE-8524B lan: Realtek RTL8139 + some stuff connected to USB, a scanner, a printer,... -- Cyber Killer mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tlen.pl: [EMAIL PROTECTED] gg: 2935777 yahoo: cyber_killer4 When the last tree is cut, the last river poisoned, and the last fish dead, we will discover that we can't eat money. www.greenpeace.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installation problem: unable to resolve 'LABEL=/'
On Saturday 16 October 2004 10:08 am, Boyi Zeng wrote: Hello, Yesterday I tried to install mandrake linux 10.1 to my notebook. The installation process is smooth. But I got problem at the startup after installation. The error message is like that: checking root partition: fsck.ext3: unable to resolve 'LABEL=/' I had windows XP in my notebook before. Now I used Grub to boot both systems. The configuration of grub is default, and there is no such string as 'LABEL=/'. Is there any one know what the problem is? Thank you Hi Boyi... You're saying that the grub configuraion file (menu.lst) has no reference to 'LABEL=/'? How about /etc/fstab? Typically, the root directory is mounted in read only mode first, then remounted in read/write mode. If it's trying to reference a label in fstab that isn't actually on the partition, it would certainly cause this problem. First, check your fstab file for something such as: LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 If that shows, then it means it's trying to reference the boot partition by the label. You might have to figure out which partition is actually the boot partition, and then you could either: A) Change the line in fstab to read: /dev/hda5 / ext3 defaults 1 1 (just for example) B) Set the label on the partition: # e2label /dev/hda5 / or # tune2fs -L / /dev/hda5 To see if the label was actually set (or what it currently is set to), enter: # e2label /dev/hda5 (or whatever you believe your root partition is) My default installation of Mandrake 10.0 Official made use of the /dev path instead of the label (which I would assume is much safer). I am not sure why yours went sour like that, but maybe you'll be able to fix it wihout reinstalling Mandrake... -- Take care, Randall Hobbs Programmer - System Administrator - Chip Castle Dot Com, Inc. Web Hosting * Programming * Software http://www.chipcastle.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installation problem: unable to resolve 'LABEL=/'
Hello, Thanks for your reply. I reinstalled mandrake, and choose LILO as the boot loader, and then it worked. Since I installed Linux from hard disk. there seems to be no method for me to edit the menu.lst or the fstab. Anyway, the problem is solved. Thank you. On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 07:40:32 -0500, Randall D. Hobbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 16 October 2004 10:08 am, Boyi Zeng wrote: Hello, Yesterday I tried to install mandrake linux 10.1 to my notebook. The installation process is smooth. But I got problem at the startup after installation. The error message is like that: checking root partition: fsck.ext3: unable to resolve 'LABEL=/' I had windows XP in my notebook before. Now I used Grub to boot both systems. The configuration of grub is default, and there is no such string as 'LABEL=/'. Is there any one know what the problem is? Thank you Hi Boyi... You're saying that the grub configuraion file (menu.lst) has no reference to 'LABEL=/'? How about /etc/fstab? Typically, the root directory is mounted in read only mode first, then remounted in read/write mode. If it's trying to reference a label in fstab that isn't actually on the partition, it would certainly cause this problem. First, check your fstab file for something such as: LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 If that shows, then it means it's trying to reference the boot partition by the label. You might have to figure out which partition is actually the boot partition, and then you could either: A) Change the line in fstab to read: /dev/hda5 / ext3 defaults 1 1 (just for example) B) Set the label on the partition: # e2label /dev/hda5 / or # tune2fs -L / /dev/hda5 To see if the label was actually set (or what it currently is set to), enter: # e2label /dev/hda5 (or whatever you believe your root partition is) My default installation of Mandrake 10.0 Official made use of the /dev path instead of the label (which I would assume is much safer). I am not sure why yours went sour like that, but maybe you'll be able to fix it wihout reinstalling Mandrake... -- Take care, Randall Hobbs Programmer - System Administrator - Chip Castle Dot Com, Inc. Web Hosting * Programming * Software http://www.chipcastle.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Installation problem: unable to resolve 'LABEL=/'
Hello, Yesterday I tried to install mandrake linux 10.1 to my notebook. The installation process is smooth. But I got problem at the startup after installation. The error message is like that: checking root partition: fsck.ext3: unable to resolve 'LABEL=/' I had windows XP in my notebook before. Now I used Grub to boot both systems. The configuration of grub is default, and there is no such string as 'LABEL=/'. Is there any one know what the problem is? Thank you Sincerely, Boyi Zeng Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Installation Problem
I got the following error while trying to install the 64 bit version: FATAL ERROR IN STAGE1 I/O Error It says it can't recover and I should reboot? Any help would be great.
Re: [newbie] Installation Problem
I had the same error with a 32b version. Do you install from CD? If so the cd you use might be bad. I tried to do network install and it worked (well, I had a different error and I still haven't installed the os, but that's different story). If installing from net is not good for you for some reason, try to burn the cd again. Marcin - Original Message - From: Steve Turner To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 8:12 AM Subject: [newbie] Installation Problem I got the following error while trying to install the 64 bit version: FATAL ERROR IN STAGE1 I/O Error It says it can't recover and I should reboot? Any help would be great.
RE: [newbie] Installation Problem
Depending on how old the hardware is, I have had success with older
machine installsby using "linux ide=nodma" during the
install.
Mark
-Original Message-From: Marcin Michalak
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 10:25
AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: [newbie]
Installation Problem
I had the same error with a 32b version. Do
you install from CD? If so the cd you use might be bad. I tried to
do network install and it worked (well, I had a different error and I still
haven't installed the os, but that's different story). If installing
from net is not good for you for some reason, try to burn the cd
again.
Marcin
- Original Message -
From:
Steve
Turner
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 8:12
AM
Subject: [newbie] Installation
Problem
I got the following error while trying to
install the 64 bit version:
FATAL ERROR IN STAGE1 I/O Error
It says it can't recover and I should
reboot?
Any help would be
great.
Re: [newbie] Installation Problem
Hardware is all new.
- Original Message -
From:
Ayares, Mark
(Mark)
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 8:32
AM
Subject: RE: [newbie] Installation
Problem
Depending on how old the hardware is, I have had success with older
machine installsby using "linux ide=nodma" during the
install.
Mark
-Original Message-From: Marcin Michalak
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 10:25
AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject:
Re: [newbie] Installation Problem
I had the same error with a 32b version.
Do you install from CD? If so the cd you use might be bad. I
tried to do network install and it worked (well, I had a different error and
I still haven't installed the os, but that's different story). If
installing from net is not good for you for some reason, try to burn the cd
again.
Marcin
- Original Message -
From:
Steve Turner
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 8:12
AM
Subject: [newbie] Installation
Problem
I got the following error while trying to
install the 64 bit version:
FATAL ERROR IN STAGE1 I/O Error
It says it can't recover and I should
reboot?
Any help would be
great.
Re: [newbie] Installation Problem
On Friday 19 March 2004 10:12 am, Steve Turner wrote: I got the following error while trying to install the 64 bit version: FATAL ERROR IN STAGE1 I/O Error It says it can't recover and I should reboot? Any help would be great. I agree about hitting 'f1', if you get that far, but if not, I would consider trying to reburn the cd. -- linux counter #167806 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installation Problem
On Sat, 2004-03-20 at 10:05, et wrote: On Friday 19 March 2004 10:12 am, Steve Turner wrote: I got the following error while trying to install the 64 bit version: FATAL ERROR IN STAGE1 I/O Error It says it can't recover and I should reboot? Any help would be great. I agree about hitting 'f1', if you get that far, but if not, I would consider trying to reburn the cd. Just on a side note - this happened a few months back when I was trying to install MDK on a client's machine - turned out the CDROM was overtly dirty and dusty. After a THOROUGH cleaning of the CDROM drive, the installation went without a flaw. That's one thing I always check now right off the bat as I'm sick and tired of having problems with software on CD's and the customers don't take the time nor the effort to clean them. Always nice to have an air compressor handy (grin) - as I do. stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- It is through symbols that man consciously or unconsciously lives, works and has his being. -- Thomas Carlyle Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installation problem.
Dennis Myers wrote: On Friday 05 September 2003 01:24 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Tony, I used that link. Many packages gave me the message: The signature of the package xxx is not correct No GPG signature package Do you want to install it anyway? Is there a way to fix this? Thanx, Ayoub snip Go here to para 1.3 and get the gpg keys. http://plf.zarb.org/ HTH Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Hi, I downloaded the keys but got dependency inconsistency/conflict when updating the LM9.0. Rather than spend time getting LM9.0 to work again, I decided to spend the time trying to get LM9.1 to work. I jetisond LM9.0 and installed LM9.1. During the installation I configured LM9.1 to start up into KDE GUI. Like before at bootup I ended up at the command line prompt instead of gui. I used command line urpmi to install Xtart to try and get the GUI to work that way. KDE would not start, but Xtart gave me the option to start iceWM too. I never used iceWM before and I thought that it was time to try it. After some failed attempts to start KDE I tried iceWM. Lo and behold it started and I found that all the KDE applications were also available to me through there. I decided not to try running any KDE modules before doing all security updating. I closed iceWM and at the CLI I reinstalled all of KDE including all its security updates. Still it did not work. I have I long way to go before I have a properly working LM9.1. Can someone please give me pointers to show me how to use urpmi to update urpmi? Can I update urpmi using urpmi the way I update other rpms using urpmi? Thanx, Ayoub Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installation problem.
Hi Tony, I used that link. Many packages gave me the message: The signature of the package xxx is not correct No GPG signature package Do you want to install it anyway? Is there a way to fix this? Thanx, Ayoub Tony S. Sykes wrote: Ayoub890, Use this link http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/urpmiweb.php . Tony. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 8:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Installation problem. Hi, I went and installed the LM9.0 back. It worked fine unlike LM9.1. However, it timed out every time it tried to do the updates during install. Later I booted up LM9.0 and ran rpmdrake. rpmdrake tried to update from LM9.1 sites. Can someone point me to some remaining LM9.0 update sites? Thanx, Ayoub890 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could it be that the XFree has a problem? I tried both versions 3.x and 4.x that came in the CD. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any hints anybody? I want LM9.1 to work on my machine, like win2k does and LM9.0 did. During installation of LM9.1, the graphics card was recognized correctly (RIVA TNT2 with 32Megs) but the Futura monitor was not. Many alternate monitors from the generic monitor list and many combinations of horizontal rate, vertical rate, resolutions and colors for custom monitor configuration would not work. The test showed a grey screen for all of them. The display manager failed every time during bootup and the machine went into command line mode instead of graphics mode. After booting to command line was completed, Alt-F7 showed a blank screen. LM9.0 worked fine using the same hardware, and dual booted Win2k also works fine. Can anybody give me a hint? Thanx Ayoub Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Business Computer Projects - Disclaimer -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- This message, and any associated attachment is confidential. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system, do not use or disclose the information in any way, and notify either Tony S. Sykes or the postmaster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] immediately. The contents of this message may contain personal views which are not necessarily the views of Business Computer Projects Ltd., unless specifically stated. Whilst every effort has been made to ensure that emails and their attachments are virus free, it is the responsibility of the recipient(s) to verify the integrity of such emails. Business Computer Projects Ltd BCP House 151 Charles Street Stockport Cheshire SK1 3JY Tel: +44 (0)161 355-3000 Fax: +44 (0)161 355-3001 Web: http://www.bcpsoftware.com http://www.bcpsoftware.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installation problem.
On Friday 05 September 2003 01:24 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Tony, I used that link. Many packages gave me the message: The signature of the package xxx is not correct No GPG signature package Do you want to install it anyway? Is there a way to fix this? Thanx, Ayoub snip Go here to para 1.3 and get the gpg keys. http://plf.zarb.org/ HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installation problem.
Any hints anybody? I want LM9.1 to work on my machine, like win2k does and LM9.0 did. During installation of LM9.1, the graphics card was recognized correctly (RIVA TNT2 with 32Megs) but the Futura monitor was not. Many alternate monitors from the generic monitor list and many combinations of horizontal rate, vertical rate, resolutions and colors for custom monitor configuration would not work. The test showed a grey screen for all of them. The display manager failed every time during bootup and the machine went into command line mode instead of graphics mode. After booting to command line was completed, Alt-F7 showed a blank screen. LM9.0 worked fine using the same hardware, and dual booted Win2k also works fine. Can anybody give me a hint? Thanx Ayoub Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installation problem.
Any hints anybody? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shame, the win2k is working and the LM9.1 on the same machine is not. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, During installation of LM9.1, the graphics card was recognized correctly (RIVA TNT2 with 32Megs) but the Futura monitor was not. Many alternate monitors from the generic monitor list and many combinations of horizontal rate, vertical rate, resolutions and colors for custom monitor configuration would not work. The test showed a grey screen for all of them. The display manager failed every time during bootup and the machine went into command line mode instead of graphics mode. After booting to command line was completed, Alt-F7 showed a blank screen. LM9.0 worked fine using the same hardware, and dual booted Win2k also works fine. Has anybody seen this problem? Thanx Ayoub Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Installation problem.
Hi, During installation of LM9.1, the graphics card was recognized correctly (RIVA TNT2 with 32Megs) but the Futura monitor was not. Many alternate monitors from the generic monitor list and many combinations of horizontal rate, vertical rate, resolutions and colors for custom monitor configuration would not work. The test showed a grey screen for all of them. The display manager failed every time during bootup and the machine went into command line mode instead of graphics mode. After booting to command line was completed, Alt-F7 showed a blank screen. LM9.0 worked fine using the same hardware, and dual booted Win2k also works fine. Has anybody seen this problem? Thanx Ayoub Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installation problem.
Shame, the win2k is working and the LM9.1 on the same machine is not. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, During installation of LM9.1, the graphics card was recognized correctly (RIVA TNT2 with 32Megs) but the Futura monitor was not. Many alternate monitors from the generic monitor list and many combinations of horizontal rate, vertical rate, resolutions and colors for custom monitor configuration would not work. The test showed a grey screen for all of them. The display manager failed every time during bootup and the machine went into command line mode instead of graphics mode. After booting to command line was completed, Alt-F7 showed a blank screen. LM9.0 worked fine using the same hardware, and dual booted Win2k also works fine. Has anybody seen this problem? Thanx Ayoub Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Installation problem (8.2): ramdisk ??
Downloaded iso's Mandrake 8.2. System boots up from CD-ROM OK. Partitioned HDD using Pmagic into ext of 3000Mb and swap of 512 Mb Boot from CD, get into setup screen... Get unrecoverable error concerning ramdisk almost immediately after I get past the first screen (where setup options are chosen). The result is the same in text mode. System runs WinXP (NTFS system), Has 256Mb RAM, 20Gb and 80Gb HDD's, Intel P4/1500 MHz, TNT2/64 on board (Intel Motherboard) Any ideas??
[newbie] Installation Problem (Xfree86) and Greeetings!
Hi there... I've been watching this list for a few days now and all I can say is... if you folks are newbies then I don't know *what* the hell *I* should be called! ;o) Anyway... on to my problem... I've just tried a lnx4win install of Mandrake 8.1, but whilst it all went fairly easily, there was a problem with its installation of Xfree86. It didn't install correctly, and as a result I have no graphics interface. I only have a very cursory idea about Linux command lines so please be gentle! ;o) How do I get XFree86 to install now, via CLI? Is it possible? PV. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Installation problem on SparcStation 20
I just downloaded the Mandrake Corp Server 1.0 for Sparc and installed to my SparcStation 20 machine but failed. Since I did not have keyboard/mouse and monitor for this machine, I installed the Linux via the PC console connected to port A of the Sparc machine. The following is the installation messages: Loading initial ramdisk PROMLIB: obio_ranges 5 Booting Linux... PROMLIB: Sun Boot Prom Version 3 Revision 2 Linux version 2.2.15 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.95.3 19991030 (prerelease)) #4 Wed Jun 14 15:46:42 CEST 2000 ARCH: SUN4M TYPE: Sun4m SparcStation10/20 Ethernet address: 8:0:20:72:ef:a9 Boot time fixup v1.6. 4/Mar/98 Jakub Jelinek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Patching kernel for srmmu[TI Viking/MXCC]/iommu [0]: v[f000,f100](100) p[] [1]: v[f100,f200](100) p[0200] [2]: v[f200,f300](100) p[0800] [3]: v[f300,f400](100) p[0a00] [4]: v[f400,f800](400) p[1000] [5]: v[f800,f900](100) p[1c00] [6]: v[f900,f9f39000](f39000) p[1e00] [7]: v[f9f3a000,f9f4d000](13000) p[1ef3a000] Found CPU 0 node=ffd6e150,mid=8 Found CPU 1 node=ffd6e510,mid=10 Found 2 CPU prom device tree node(s). Power off control detected. Calibrating delay loop... 59.80 BogoMIPS Memory: 157932k available (948k kernel code, 4064k data, 176k init) [f000,fa 00] Dentry hash table entries: 32768 (order 6, 256k) Buffer cache hash table entries: 262144 (order 8, 1024k) Page cache hash table entries: 65536 (order 6, 256k) POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX IOMMU: impl 1 vers 3 page table at f058 of size 262144 bytes sbus0: Clock 25.0 MHz dma0: Revision 2 dma1: Revision 2 dma2: ESC Revision 1 Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0. NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 262144 bhash 65536) Starting kswapd v 1.5 Sparc Zilog8530 serial driver version 1.41.2.5 tty00 at 0xffede004 (irq = 44) is a Zilog8530 tty01 at 0xffede000 (irq = 44) is a Zilog8530 tty02 at 0xffedb004 (irq = 44) is a Zilog8530 tty03 at 0xffedb000 (irq = 44) is a Zilog8530 keyboard: not present Console: ttyS0 (Zilog8530) Sun Mouse-Systems mouse driver version 1.00 RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 32000K size Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MAX_REAL=12 raid5: measuring checksumming speed raid5: trying high-speed SPARC checksum routine SPARC :72.771 MB/sec 8regs :49.530 MB/sec 32regs:49.911 MB/sec using fastest function: SPARC (72.771 MB/sec) esp0: IRQ 36 SCSI ID 7 Clk 40MHz CCF=8 TOut 167 NCR53C9XF(espfast) esp1: IRQ 53 SCSI ID 7 Clk 40MHz CCF=8 TOut 167 NCR53C9XF(espfast) ESP: Total of 2 ESP hosts found, 2 actually in use. scsi0 : Sparc ESP100A-FAST scsi1 : Sparc ESP236-FAST scsi : 2 hosts. Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST318404LCRev: 0002 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 Vendor: TOSHIBA Model: XM5701TASUN12XCD Rev: 0997 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 scsi : detected total. sunlance.c:v1.12 11/Mar/99 Miguel de Icaza ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) eth0: LANCE 08:00:20:72:ef:a9 eth0: using auto-carrier-detection. eth1: LANCE 08:00:20:72:ef:a9 md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4104 Partition check: RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 EXT2-fs warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). Linux-Mandrake install init version 1.1 starting mounting /proc filesystem... done opening /proc/cmdline... done checking command line arguments... done failed to open /dev/tty1failed. I can't recover from this. -- Does anyone know what is the problem and how to solve it??? Thanks a lot. _ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Installation problem
Title: RE: [newbie] Installation problem
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Frans Ketelaars
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 1:08 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Installation problem
On Mon, 3 Dec 2001 16:32:24 +0100
Helle Espen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have Dell inspiron 3800.
Have had Linux mandrake 7.? (1?) on it before without any problem.
Tried now to install LM 8.1, and I am not able to do it.
It hangs when it tries to use the CDROM (But it is able to use it
before.Strange..)
Can anyone please help me?
Here comes what I think is relevant of kernel messages:
4 ide0 BM-DMA at 0x860-0x0867, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hda:pio
4 ide1 BM-DMA at 0x868-0x086f, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdc:pio
Strange, it mentions hda for ide0 (twice) _and_ ide1 ...
hdc: SONY CD-RW CRX700E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM DRIVER
4VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem)
4hdc: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM-RW drive, 8192kB Cache, DMA
6Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
6SCSI subsstemdriver Revision: 1.0
7ISO 9660 Extentions: RRIP_1991A
4hdc: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x51 {DriveReady SeekComplete Error
}
4hdc: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x34
4hdc: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x51 {DriveReady SeekComplete Error
}
4hdc: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x34
4ide_dmaproc: chipset supported ide_dma_lostirq func only: 13
4hdc: lost innterrupt
4ide_dmaproc: chipset supported ide_dma_lostirq func only: 13
4hdc: lost interrupt
And continuing.
Tries also to reset ATAPI and disable DMA
Looks like a cdrom hardware problem :( Is this a laptop ?
-Frans
Do you have the CDROM jumpered for slave or master on the secondary IDE channel? I would put it on the primary IDE and jump it as slave. HTH Dennis M.
Re: [newbie] Installation problem
On Tuesday 04 December 2001 02:07 pm, you wrote:
On Mon, 3 Dec 2001 16:32:24 +0100
Helle Espen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have Dell inspiron 3800.
Have had Linux mandrake 7.? (1?) on it before without any problem.
Tried now to install LM 8.1, and I am not able to do it.
It hangs when it tries to use the CDROM (But it is able to use it
before.Strange..)
Can anyone please help me?
Here comes what I think is relevant of kernel messages:
4 ide0 BM-DMA at 0x860-0x0867, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hda:pio
4 ide1 BM-DMA at 0x868-0x086f, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdc:pio
Strange, it mentions hda for ide0 (twice) _and_ ide1 ...
hdc: SONY CD-RW CRX700E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM DRIVER
4VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem)
4hdc: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM-RW drive, 8192kB Cache, DMA
6Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
6SCSI subsstemdriver Revision: 1.0
7ISO 9660 Extentions: RRIP_1991A
4hdc: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x51 {DriveReady SeekComplete Error
}
4hdc: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x34
4hdc: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x51 {DriveReady SeekComplete Error
}
4hdc: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x34
4ide_dmaproc: chipset supported ide_dma_lostirq func only: 13
4hdc: lost innterrupt
4ide_dmaproc: chipset supported ide_dma_lostirq func only: 13
4hdc: lost interrupt
And continuing.
Tries also to reset ATAPI and disable DMA
Looks like a cdrom hardware problem :( Is this a laptop ?
-Frans
--
Check the cdrom,
Saw a report where Dell sets the jumpers to cable select.
Joseph Demers
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Linux is like an old car. Hard to get going
but once it's going it doesn't stop.
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[newbie] Installation problem
I
have Dell inspiron 3800.
Have had Linux
mandrake 7.? (1?) on it before without any problem.
Tried now to install
LM 8.1, and I am not able todo it.
It hangs
whenit tries to use the CDROM (But it is able to use it
before.Strange..)
Can anyone please
help me?
Here comes what I
think is relevant of kernel messages:
4 ide0
BM-DMA at 0x860-0x0867, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hda:pio
4 ide1
BM-DMA at 0x868-0x086f, BIOS settings: hda:DMA,
hdc:pio
hdc: SONY CD-RW
CRX700E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM DRIVER
4VFS:
Mounted root (ext2 filesystem)
4hdc: ATAPI
24X CD-ROM-RW drive, 8192kB Cache, DMA
6Uniform
CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
6SCSI
subsstemdriver Revision: 1.0
7ISO 9660
Extentions: RRIP_1991A
4hdc:
cdrom_decode_status: status=0x51 {DriveReady SeekComplete Error
}
4hdc:
cdrom_decode_status: status=0x34
4hdc:
cdrom_decode_status: status=0x51 {DriveReady SeekComplete Error
}
4hdc:
cdrom_decode_status: status=0x34
4ide_dmaproc: chipset supported ide_dma_lostirq func only:
13
4hdc: lost
innterrupt
4ide_dmaproc: chipset supported ide_dma_lostirq func only:
13
4hdc: lost
interrupt
And
continuing.
Tries also to reset
ATAPI and disable DMA
Re: [newbie] Installation problem
On Mon, 3 Dec 2001 16:32:24 +0100
Helle Espen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have Dell inspiron 3800.
Have had Linux mandrake 7.? (1?) on it before without any problem.
Tried now to install LM 8.1, and I am not able to do it.
It hangs when it tries to use the CDROM (But it is able to use it
before.Strange..)
Can anyone please help me?
Here comes what I think is relevant of kernel messages:
4 ide0 BM-DMA at 0x860-0x0867, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hda:pio
4 ide1 BM-DMA at 0x868-0x086f, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdc:pio
Strange, it mentions hda for ide0 (twice) _and_ ide1 ...
hdc: SONY CD-RW CRX700E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM DRIVER
4VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem)
4hdc: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM-RW drive, 8192kB Cache, DMA
6Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
6SCSI subsstemdriver Revision: 1.0
7ISO 9660 Extentions: RRIP_1991A
4hdc: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x51 {DriveReady SeekComplete Error
}
4hdc: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x34
4hdc: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x51 {DriveReady SeekComplete Error
}
4hdc: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x34
4ide_dmaproc: chipset supported ide_dma_lostirq func only: 13
4hdc: lost innterrupt
4ide_dmaproc: chipset supported ide_dma_lostirq func only: 13
4hdc: lost interrupt
And continuing.
Tries also to reset ATAPI and disable DMA
Looks like a cdrom hardware problem :( Is this a laptop ?
-Frans
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[newbie] installation problem with linux 8.0
Hi, Happy thanksgiving and happy holidays ! I have installed Mandrake 7.0 on my machine. I wanted to upgrade that to 8.0 And I have downloaded mandrake 8.0 [all the three files] and burnt on 3 cds. Now when I tried to boot the machine with new burnt CD it doesnot boot. Can anybody suggest me how to go ahead thanks in advance Partha _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installation problem: no such device
civileme wrote: On Sunday 28 October 2001 04:59, Robin Turner wrote: I'm reinstalling Mandrake 8.0 and get the following problem while assigning partitions: Mount failed No such device This is happens two partitions: /dev/hda1 (vfat) and /dev/hda2 (reiserfs). It also happens with a more complete partitioning, i.e. /dev/hda1 (vfat) /devhda5 (reiserfs, /) /dev/hda6 (swap) /dev/hda7 (reiserfs, /home) This has never happened before on this box - any ideas about why it's doing it now and what I can do about it? Robin Yep, you need a notail mount of reiser to use as root and that causes kernel oopses in 8.0. Do not use Reiser for /. Hmm - it worked OK before. Maybe because that was because I was instaling over an old ext2 installation, rather than vfat. I prefer reiser to ext2 because we have a lot of power cuts here, not to mention users who like to reboot into Windows by hitting the restart button. 8.1 Reiser is much improved So I hear. Problem is I can't do a net install of 8.1 - it fails to retrieve the second stage ramdisk. This seems to be a problem with every other version of Mandrake: 7.1 was fine, 7.2 failed, 8.0 was fine, 8.1 fails. Robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Installation Problem
I recently purchased a new PC (Athlon 1GHz on ASUS A7V133, WD 30Gb ATA100 HDD) and wish to install LM7.2. After booting with the CD inserted I specify a language and keyboard, then the installation program searches for a SCSI drive before displaying the message: An error has occured. No valid devices were found on which to create new filesystems. Please check your hardware for the cause of this problem. I have partitioned the HDD four ways using fdisk and am running WinMe on the C drive. I had mentally allocated E and F for Linux and the swap partition respectively. Is the fact that the HDD is running off the onboard ATA100 controller the reason it can't be located? If so is there a remedy? If not etc. etc... Hopefully yours, Tim (the Ultranewbie)
RE: [newbie] Installation Problem
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of T.P. Smith Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 7:09 AM To: Linux Mandrake Help Subject: [newbie] Installation Problem I recently purchased a new PC (Athlon 1GHz on ASUS A7V133, WD 30Gb ATA100 HDD) and wish to install LM7.2. After booting with the CD inserted I specify a language and keyboard, then the installation program searches for a SCSI drive before displaying the message: An error has occured. No valid devices were found on which to create new filesystems. Please check your hardware for the cause of this problem. I have partitioned the HDD four ways using fdisk and am running WinMe on the C drive. I had mentally allocated E and F for Linux and the swap partition respectively. Is the fact that the HDD is running off the onboard ATA100 controller the reason it can't be located? If so is there a remedy? If not etc. etc... As you have found there is a problem with the installer and an onboard Promise controller. Here is what will work on some systems, At the installation splash screen press F1 and at the boot prompt (it will be at the bottom of the screen) enter the following: lspci -vv | less use the space bar to scroll down until you find your Promise controller. You will see 5 heximal number strings showing the I/Os for the controller, write down the first 4 sets (call them a,b,c,and d). Reboot your system. At the installation splash screen press F1 and at the boot prompt enter: linux ide2=0x8400, 0x8002 ide3=0x7800, 0x74002 These are from my system you will need to enter yours. The formula to use is ide2=a, (b+2) ide3=c (d+2). If there are no other problems the installation should then run. As I said this will work on most systems but not all, mine because of the hardware config. is one on which it did not work. Should the same be for yours do not dismay Mandrake 8.0 will install on your system. Charles (-: Forever never goes beyond tomorrow.
[newbie] Installation problem
Dear Experts ! I tried to install a Linux-Mandrake 7.2 from a Linux USER (de) CD-ROM. My BIOS is set up to boot from CD-ROM. After CD-ROM initialization phase of beginning, unexpectedly an error message appears: "Can't locate install2.pm in @INC (@INC contains:) at /usr/bin/runinstall2 line 24 BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/bin/runinstall2 line 24 install exited abnormally sending termination signals...done sending kill signals...done umnounting filesystems /proc /tmp/rhimage /tmp/stage2" The problem occured after installing a new AMD 6-III/450 processor, and a 128M PR100 ram module. The former Intel Pentium 233MMX with 64M (66 MHz) RAM, the same motherboard performed the installation without any problem. Current configuration: AMD K6-III/450 at 450 MHz Tomato TX100 motherboard 128M PR100 DRAM 3 Dfx Voodoo 3 2000 PCI card 4X Sony Atapi CD-ROM drive Seagate 8,4 HDD with S.M.A.R.T. Creative Labs SB AWE 32 Onboard USB controller PS/2 mouse AMIBIOS latest version for moteherboard installed. WINDOWS98 runs bugless with new configuration!!! Thank You for Your kind help in advance: Zoltán, FEKETE
[newbie] Installation problem at Boot Loader install
Hi everyone, I'm a new Mandrake user from over in the SuSE-world, and I'm having trouble getting Mandrake to install properly. The main problem I'm encountering, is that it seems that the boot loader is never installed. When it gets to the step to install it, it simply says "Can't divide HASH by zero", and if I click okay it goes onto X-config. Perhaps it's my odd partition setup: hda1 [/boot for suse 15 megs] hda2 [Windows 98 9 gigs] hda3 [Linux Extended] hda5 [Mandrake 1.4 gigs] hda6 [Linux Swap 133 megs] hda7 [SuSE Linux 6 gigs] However I tried telling Mandrake to overwrite my /boot (for SuSE - hda1), and it wouldn't install it that way either. To make matters worse, it refuses to write to my diskette drive to create a boot disk - leaving no way to boot the system (under "Expert" however, I can get it to write a copy of the installation settings to disk). I haven't encountered these problems with SuSE, RedHat, QNX, or Caldera Linux Technology Preview (which, by the way, I previously had installed in the same partition I now have Mandrake in). Any suggestions? Thanks, Tim PS: I'm using the ISO image for disc one of LM only, not the "extended" CD too. Merry Christmas to you from Universal Networks! - Timothy R. Butler Universal Networks Information Tech. ConsultantChristian Web Services Since 1996 ICQ #12495932 AIM: Uninettm An Authorized IPSwitch Reseller [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.uninetsolutions.com = "Solutions that Work" =
[newbie] Installation problem
When I attempt installation of Mandrake Linux 7.1with DrakX it freezes when attempting to detect my hard disk. It's an IDE and set for LBA in the BIOS (whatever that means) I have a Celeron 566, HD is 20 megs with 2Meg drive set up for windows. Can anyone help me? Sincerely, Jim
Re: [newbie] Installation problem
I have a Celeron 566, HD is 20 megs with 2Meg drive set up for windows. Can anyone help me? Sincerely, Jim You mean a 20Gig HD and a 2Gig partition for windoze, don't you?? Prior to your attempt to install LM did the drive work under windoze? Is you MB running an ATA-66? LM doesn't seem to work well with the newer ATA-100 MB. Clayton
RE: [newbie] Installation problem
Let me get this straight. You are running the normal install and it freezes at the hard drive detection phase? Do you get any error messages or does it just lock up? -Original Message- From: Jim Williams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 03, 2000 6:48 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Installation problem When I attempt installation of Mandrake Linux 7.1with DrakX it freezes when attempting to detect my hard disk. It's an IDE and set for LBA in the BIOS (whatever that means) I have a Celeron 566, HD is 20 megs with 2Meg drive set up for windows. Can anyone help me? Sincerely, Jim
Re: [newbie] Installation problem
Dear Chris and Clayton The installation freezes and I'm using a 20Gig Seagate Drive. Thanks Jim Williams
RE: [newbie] Installation problem
Not 5:45! I need to get a car this weekend.. Do you realy have to stay that late on a Fraday? I can't wait to get out of here! Let me know! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jim Williams Sent: Friday, November 03, 2000 3:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Installation problem Dear Chris and Clayton The installation freezes and I'm using a 20Gig Seagate Drive. Thanks Jim Williams
Re: [newbie] Installation problem
the ATA100 channel on the A7V is reported in windows as a SCSI device. It has to load its own BIOS at boot time in order to function and I do not know if the linux kernel can successfully talk with an ATA100 BIOS yet. My won't boot if I move HD1 to the ATA100 controller which is a bummer because even ATA66 drives get a huge performace gain from being on that controller. Obviously I haven't tested it in linux yet but in wandows on my ata66 controller my ata 66 drive gets burst trasnfer to about 48MBs and sustained around 28-32MBs. On the ATA100 controller it gets burst of around 65-70MBs and sustained around 50. I've been told that the 2.4 kernel addresses ata100 but I hear that the 2.4 kernel addresses everything that doesn't currently work in linux so I'm starting to be a bit skeptical since I'm using 2.4.0 from mandrake 7.2b3 right now. Abe "Kelly, Christopher" wrote: I had this same problem a few weeks ago. Try plugging the HD into a regular IDE channel. For some reason Linux doesn't seem to like the ATA/100. -Original Message- From: Sebastien (vezinse) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 1:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Installation problem I have the Linux Mandrake7.1 installation CD. The installation starts but it keeps telling me «DO YOU HAVE ANY SCSI DEVICE ?» and I don't have one. I say no but it keeps asking me that question. impossible to go any further. I have on my Asus A7V motherboard a «Promise ULTRA DMA/100» chip. My harddrive is connected to the ATA100 connector on the mainboard. I think maybe that's what he takes for a SCSI device. What can I do ??? I don't know linux at all. But I can't even get to installation step1. I need help or need to know where to get some... -- The frammisgoshes should be distimmed because a frammisgosh is like a farble and distimming is like gosketing and our ancestors always gosketed the farbles. --R.A. Wilson
[newbie] Installation problem..
I have the Mandrake7.1 installation cd. When I boot with it, installation process begins. But when it gets to the harddrive detection, it asks me «Do you have scsi devices?» and I don't, so I answer no. It keeps asking me this question over and over. There no way I can get any further. My Asus A7V motherboard as a «ULTRA DMA/100 controller chip» and my harddisk is plugged into the ATA100 connector on the motherboard. Maybe that's what is mistaken for a SCSI device. If I answer yes to that its question it gives me a list of SCSI drivers. I tried every one of them, nothing works. There is one called IDE DISKS when I choose that one it seems to go in the right direction but after that it keeps asking me again «DO YOU HAVE ANY SCSI DEVICE?» and there no way I can get any futher to that step.
[newbie] installation problem
hello y'all, im a super newbie at this.. i recently downloaded mandrake 7.1 and was trying to install it earlier but then the installation screens were messed up. all i could see from the messages were "ok" and "cancel" and the rest of the borders of the dialogue boxes. these buttons and the borders were in light blue and the rest of the entire screen was dark blue including the options to choose from.. im running a p3700,128mb ram, and 19gb hd, 7 gs of which have windows98 installed, and the other 12 has redhat7.0. i waned ti install mandrake over the redhat partition without erasing it since teh installation would format the partition anyway right? i guess it would be highly unlikely that the linux partition is causing all the messy installation messages, so im figurin' i got a corrupted download or something. that's the best guess i can make right now since i encountered a problem as well making a boot disk from the cd's dosutils. well guesses are all i can make and i dunno much about this. anyone with a more scientific explanation?(and solution?) thanks! _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
Re: [newbie] Installation Problem
This may be a mute point, since it's been a fairly well established fact that Linux and Western Digital drives don't like one another, but did you boot the CD to start the install, or did you start from a boot floppy? I've willing to bet though that what you're experiencing is that when Linux saw your drive it bailed on you. I could be terribly wrong, but as I said, there's something about WD hdd. Something else I'm wondering about... * was this a single attempt, or did this happen on numerous attempts at installing Mandrake? * I've forgotten what the other question was...need more coffee. -- Mark ~~~ ...someone once asked Annie Sullivan what she saw in a man she was considering as perspective suiter who had a terrible case of acne. Annie was reported to have replied, "His face is an easy read!" On Mon, 2 Oct 2000 7:44pm ,Brian Fabrizio spake passionately in a message: While trying to install Mandrake 7.1 I recieve the following message during CDROM initialization: install exited abnormally -- recieved signal 11 sending termination signalsdone sending kill signals...done unmounting filesystems... /proc /tmp/rhimage /tmp/stage2 you may safely reboot your system Anyone know how I can get around this? I am using a new 20GB Western Digital drive with a single partition. No Windows. Thanks for any and all help Breezwell __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - 35mm Quality Prints, Now Get 15 Free! http://photos.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Installation Problem
This may be a mute point, since it's been a fairly well established fact that Linux and Western Digital drives don't like one another, but did you boot the CD to start the install, or did you start from a boot floppy? Ssshhdon't tell my WD153 that Linux doesn't like it. So far neither of them knows. Cheers --- Larry
Re: [newbie] Installation Problem
I wouldn't know if its your hard drives, but I have 2-10.2 WD hard drives and linux installed like a dream, except in 7.2 beta1 (where it kept crashing while trying to format the hard drive) I've noticed that with a few people that I've helped out that have gotten Signal 11, it's been a problem with Memory(RAM), this is just my 2 cents to try to help out. Adam - Original Message - From: "Mark Weaver" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 7:45 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Installation Problem This may be a mute point, since it's been a fairly well established fact that Linux and Western Digital drives don't like one another, but did you boot the CD to start the install, or did you start from a boot floppy? I've willing to bet though that what you're experiencing is that when Linux saw your drive it bailed on you. I could be terribly wrong, but as I said, there's something about WD hdd. Something else I'm wondering about... * was this a single attempt, or did this happen on numerous attempts at installing Mandrake? * I've forgotten what the other question was...need more coffee. -- Mark ~~~ someone once asked Annie Sullivan what she saw in a man she was considering as perspective suiter who had a terrible case of acne. Annie was reported to have replied, "His face is an easy read!" On Mon, 2 Oct 2000 7:44pm ,Brian Fabrizio spake passionately in a message: While trying to install Mandrake 7.1 I recieve the following message during CDROM initialization: install exited abnormally -- recieved signal 11 sending termination signalsdone sending kill signals...done unmounting filesystems... /proc /tmp/rhimage /tmp/stage2 you may safely reboot your system Anyone know how I can get around this? I am using a new 20GB Western Digital drive with a single partition. No Windows. Thanks for any and all help Breezwell __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - 35mm Quality Prints, Now Get 15 Free! http://photos.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Installation Problem
Adam, I like yours possibility better than mine...that's for sure. Mark Adam wrote: I wouldn't know if its your hard drives, but I have 2-10.2 WD hard drives and linux installed like a dream, except in 7.2 beta1 (where it kept crashing while trying to format the hard drive) I've noticed that with a few people that I've helped out that have gotten Signal 11, it's been a problem with Memory(RAM), this is just my 2 cents to try to help out. Adam - Original Message - From: "Mark Weaver" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 7:45 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Installation Problem This may be a mute point, since it's been a fairly well established fact that Linux and Western Digital drives don't like one another, but did you boot the CD to start the install, or did you start from a boot floppy? I've willing to bet though that what you're experiencing is that when Linux saw your drive it bailed on you. I could be terribly wrong, but as I said, there's something about WD hdd. Something else I'm wondering about... * was this a single attempt, or did this happen on numerous attempts at installing Mandrake? * I've forgotten what the other question was...need more coffee. -- Mark ~~~ someone once asked Annie Sullivan what she saw in a man she was considering as perspective suiter who had a terrible case of acne. Annie was reported to have replied, "His face is an easy read!" On Mon, 2 Oct 2000 7:44pm ,Brian Fabrizio spake passionately in a message: While trying to install Mandrake 7.1 I recieve the following message during CDROM initialization: install exited abnormally -- recieved signal 11 sending termination signalsdone sending kill signals...done unmounting filesystems... /proc /tmp/rhimage /tmp/stage2 you may safely reboot your system Anyone know how I can get around this? I am using a new 20GB Western Digital drive with a single partition. No Windows. Thanks for any and all help Breezwell __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - 35mm Quality Prints, Now Get 15 Free! http://photos.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Installation Problem
Mark Weaver wrote: This may be a mute point, since it's been a fairly well established fact that Linux and Western Digital drives don't like one another, but did you boot the CD to start the install, or did you start from a boot floppy? I've willing to bet though that what you're experiencing is that when Linux saw your drive it bailed on you. I could be terribly wrong, but as I said, there's something about WD hdd. [snip] Markit's not quite so simple. What you're saying comes from some experimants that civileme did with different hardware and I'll try to be as accurate as I can here without civileme being currently available to ask. First off, it has to do not with linux, but with 586 optimized code. Also, it has to do with DMA66 drives. The problem never seemed to be present with DMA32 drives (or DMA66 drive operated as DMA32). The worst offenders of the DMA66 drives were the ones built by WD and the drives that caused virtually no problems were those manufactured by IBM. So, there are a couple of obvious potential solutions. Switch to a non 586 optimized distro (like the 486 version of mdk 7.0). Run your DMA 66 drives as DMA32 or only use DMA32 drives unless you've got IBM DMA66 drives. Look in the expert archives for a brand name rundown. There's also problems associated with some older (not necessarily real old, but just a year or so in some cases) CD drives. If in doubt and there's a newer CD drive available, swap it out and see if that fixes the problem. Alan
Re: [newbie] Installation Problem
On Tue, 03 Oct 2000, Mark Weaver wrote: This may be a mute point, since it's been a fairly well established fact that Linux and Western Digital drives don't like one another, ??Have I just been lucky? In the past 2 years I've installed 6 different distros on 3 different systems with WD drives and have never had a problem (from little 1.2 gig to 17 giggers). All IDE drives though--my only scsi is a Seagate. e.
[newbie] Installation Problem: No valid device for filesystems?
Hello. Sorry to trouble you all, but I've been having a terrible time trying to install Linux 7.0 Complete on a new Gateway 750 Pentium III system. First I'll list the details about my system: Processor and Motherboard: Intel Pentium III, 800 MHz 128 MB Memory 30 GB 7200 RMP Ultra ATA66 Hard Drive Ultra ATA 100 Controller for Windows HD Controller: Intel 82371AB/EB PCI Master IDE Controller Intel 82371AB/EB PCI to USB Universal Host Controller This next thing, listed in my Windows system summary, struck me as odd, because I'd don't have an SCSI device that I know of. Anyway, here goes: SCSI Controllers: Win95-98 Promise Ultra100 IDE Controller (I thought IDE and SCSI were different?) What happens is that after I set up a Linux partition using the PartitionMagic utility that came with the package, then I set up dual boot with BootMagic. So far so good. But then when I run the install program from my CDROM, it gets to the point where it sets up, mounts and formats the partitions. Here it says an error occurred, no valid devices could be found on which to install filesystems, and it tells me to consult my hardware. All I can do at this point is halt installation. My boot partition is under the 1024th cylinder, so that's not the problem. I went through a whole other nightmare getting that set up properly, but that's a different story. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I've found lots of good information on the Mandrake site, but nothing that addresses this problem directly (I do with that Mandrake would stress this issue of the 1024th cylinder on in the documentation, because with larger hard drives more and more people will have to deal with this headache). MacMillan, which distributes Mandrake in the United States, won't answer any of my requests for help, even though I provided all of the information they requested and registered as required. (Mandrake should consider dumping these losers, IMHO, and finding someone who will push and support their product). My only hope is the help of knowledgeable and experienced users. I'd really like to try Linux, as I've wanted an alternative to Windows, which I hate, for years. But I'm about to give up after all this frustration. Thanks very much, Brian Rourke
Re: [newbie] Installation Problem: No valid device for filesystems?
Ultra ATA 100 Controller for Windows-there is a possible problem. You know the problem with winmodems, that label 'for windows' doesn't look good. Still, I never heard of a wincontroler before. That scsi-ide thing is probably just a bad setup, and shouldn't effect linux is any way. - Original Message - From: "Brian Rourke" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2000 11:12 AM Subject: [newbie] Installation Problem: No valid device for filesystems? Hello. Sorry to trouble you all, but I've been having a terrible time trying to install Linux 7.0 Complete on a new Gateway 750 Pentium III system. First I'll list the details about my system: Processor and Motherboard: Intel Pentium III, 800 MHz 128 MB Memory 30 GB 7200 RMP Ultra ATA66 Hard Drive Ultra ATA 100 Controller for Windows HD Controller: Intel 82371AB/EB PCI Master IDE Controller Intel 82371AB/EB PCI to USB Universal Host Controller This next thing, listed in my Windows system summary, struck me as odd, because I'd don't have an SCSI device that I know of. Anyway, here goes: SCSI Controllers: Win95-98 Promise Ultra100 IDE Controller (I thought IDE and SCSI were different?) What happens is that after I set up a Linux partition using the PartitionMagic utility that came with the package, then I set up dual boot with BootMagic. So far so good. But then when I run the install program from my CDROM, it gets to the point where it sets up, mounts and formats the partitions. Here it says an error occurred, no valid devices could be found on which to install filesystems, and it tells me to consult my hardware. All I can do at this point is halt installation. My boot partition is under the 1024th cylinder, so that's not the problem. I went through a whole other nightmare getting that set up properly, but that's a different story. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I've found lots of good information on the Mandrake site, but nothing that addresses this problem directly (I do with that Mandrake would stress this issue of the 1024th cylinder on in the documentation, because with larger hard drives more and more people will have to deal with this headache). MacMillan, which distributes Mandrake in the United States, won't answer any of my requests for help, even though I provided all of the information they requested and registered as required. (Mandrake should consider dumping these losers, IMHO, and finding someone who will push and support their product). My only hope is the help of knowledgeable and experienced users. I'd really like to try Linux, as I've wanted an alternative to Windows, which I hate, for years. But I'm about to give up after all this frustration. Thanks very much, Brian Rourke
Re: [newbie] Installation Problem: No valid device for filesystems?
Don't quote me on this, but I'm pretty sure that the ATA 100 controller is not supported by Linux yet. I know for a fact that there are significant similarities betwwen ATA66 and SCSI controllers ( afriend of mine regularly modifies ATA66 cards to use them as SCSI cards ), so I imagine that those similarities are even more pronounced with the ATA100 cards. That's most likely where your problem lies. - Original Message - From: "Goldenpi" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2000 7:29 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Installation Problem: No valid device for filesystems? Ultra ATA 100 Controller for Windows-there is a possible problem. You know the problem with winmodems, that label 'for windows' doesn't look good. Still, I never heard of a wincontroler before. That scsi-ide thing is probably just a bad setup, and shouldn't effect linux is any way. - Original Message - From: "Brian Rourke" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2000 11:12 AM Subject: [newbie] Installation Problem: No valid device for filesystems? Hello. Sorry to trouble you all, but I've been having a terrible time trying to install Linux 7.0 Complete on a new Gateway 750 Pentium III system. First I'll list the details about my system: Processor and Motherboard: Intel Pentium III, 800 MHz 128 MB Memory 30 GB 7200 RMP Ultra ATA66 Hard Drive Ultra ATA 100 Controller for Windows HD Controller: Intel 82371AB/EB PCI Master IDE Controller Intel 82371AB/EB PCI to USB Universal Host Controller This next thing, listed in my Windows system summary, struck me as odd, because I'd don't have an SCSI device that I know of. Anyway, here goes: SCSI Controllers: Win95-98 Promise Ultra100 IDE Controller (I thought IDE and SCSI were different?) What happens is that after I set up a Linux partition using the PartitionMagic utility that came with the package, then I set up dual boot with BootMagic. So far so good. But then when I run the install program from my CDROM, it gets to the point where it sets up, mounts and formats the partitions. Here it says an error occurred, no valid devices could be found on which to install filesystems, and it tells me to consult my hardware. All I can do at this point is halt installation. My boot partition is under the 1024th cylinder, so that's not the problem. I went through a whole other nightmare getting that set up properly, but that's a different story. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I've found lots of good information on the Mandrake site, but nothing that addresses this problem directly (I do with that Mandrake would stress this issue of the 1024th cylinder on in the documentation, because with larger hard drives more and more people will have to deal with this headache). MacMillan, which distributes Mandrake in the United States, won't answer any of my requests for help, even though I provided all of the information they requested and registered as required. (Mandrake should consider dumping these losers, IMHO, and finding someone who will push and support their product). My only hope is the help of knowledgeable and experienced users. I'd really like to try Linux, as I've wanted an alternative to Windows, which I hate, for years. But I'm about to give up after all this frustration. Thanks very much, Brian Rourke
RE: [newbie] Installation problem: flashing login screen
Or let it boot up and press ALT-F6 you'll be left at a text login... Then press ALT-F1 to go to the primary console screen... Login and type killall xdm killall kdm killall gdm Disregard any errors... That will terminate the Xwindows session which is attempting to start... Now run Xconfigurator to set up your video card. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] |Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2000 1:20 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: RE: [newbie] Installation problem: flashing login screen | | | Not exactly sure I know what you mean by :" Make the selection that |you want | to start in text mode with network." I'm new to this so details |would be appreciated!! | | -Original Message- | From:David Talbot [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] | Sent:Wednesday, June 21, 2000 11:26 AM | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: Re: [newbie] Installation problem: flashing login screen | | Or as it boots when it gets to the "Welcome to Linux Mandrake" |with all of | the "OK"s going by, type the letter "i". Make the selection that you want | to start in text mode with network. | | Login and at the command line type in "Xconfigurator". | | Should be a tad easier. | | -David Talbot | | At 10:22 AM 6/21/00 -0500, you wrote: | Sounds like you have set it to boot to X and X is not configured | correctly. | | At the liol prompt, type "linux single" without quotes. It should boot | to a prompt. | | Edit /etc/inittab line that says : | | id:5:initdefault: | | | Change the 5 to a 3. | | Reboot Then set up x correctly. | | Have fun.. | | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | Hi, | I'm trying to install Mandrake 7.1 on my machine and after |installation | is | complete, the PC reboots and goes through its processes and then gets | to a | screen saying : Linux- Mandrake 7.1 | Kernel 2.2.15-4mdksecure on an i586/tty1 | localhost login: | | This screen continues to flash over and over. What is making this | occur | | Thanks, | Jason | | -- | Michael H. Collins http://www.linuxlink.com | Admiral of OpenSourcery Penguinista Navy | All Things French.. Mandrake and XFCE | Fun with the Austin Linux group http://www.austinlug.org | Need a Real Texas Radio Fix?http://www.kut.org | |
Re: [newbie] Installation problem with 7.0
To do a text install of 7.0 you will first need to make a boot floppy. While running Windows insert your Mandrake install disk. Open it with My Computer, open the dosutils folder, double click rawrite, this will open a DOS window. For the image source file name enter D:\images\txt_boot.img (Replace D with your CD-Rom drive letter) Copy to A and follow the on screen instruction to complete. Once the boot floppy is completed leave both it and the Mandrake install CD insertted and restart your comuter. Very important Enter your BIOS and change first boot device to floppy instead of CD-ROM, save the settings and exit your BIOS,and allow your computer to restart. When the Mandrake boot screen comes up press enter for a normal install. . You are now installing Linux Mandrake 7.0 in text mode. Good luck. Charles - Original Message - From: "Phiber" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 8:26 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] Installation problem with 7.0 The video card is a Trident 9685 PCI with a voodoo 2 accelerater. How do I boot into text mode? -Original Message- From: Charles A Edwards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 2:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Installation problem with 7.0 What is your video card/device. It sounds to me as though it can not handle the graph. install so you will need to run the install in text mode. Charles - Original Message - From: "Phiber" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 7:24 PM Subject: [newbie] Installation problem with 7.0 I am trying to install Mandrake 7.0 on a 200 with 32 megs of ram. I get to the part here you pick which type of install you want (recommended, custom, or expert), and when I pick one, my computer freezes. I don't know what the deal is. If anyone can help me I would be thenkful.
[newbie] Installation problem with Mandrake 7.1
I have a problem with the Mandrake 7.1 installation: When is reaches "Configure X" it keeps prompting that it can't locate the RPM package "xfree86-" !? I have tried Automated and Customized (Development) installation with the same result. I did not have any problems installing Mandrake 7.0 on the same computer. The configuration of the computer is: AMD Athlon 700MHz CPU, 128MB SD-RAM, 16GB IDE HD, Diamond Viper II(Savage2000) graphics card,Logitech Cordless Desktop. Does anybody have any suggestions? Thanks Poul -- Poul Varming Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +45 4525 3775 Fax: +45 4593 6581 WWW: http://www.com.dtu.dk/
[newbie] Installation problem with 7.0
I am trying to install Mandrake 7.0 on a 200 with 32 megs of ram. I get to the part here you pick which type of install you want (recommended, custom, or expert), and when I pick one, my computer freezes. I don't know what the deal is. If anyone can help me I would be thenkful.
Re: [newbie] Installation problem with 7.0
What happens if you don't choose anything and let it do it's thing? - Original Message - From: "Phiber" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 7:24 PM Subject: [newbie] Installation problem with 7.0 I am trying to install Mandrake 7.0 on a 200 with 32 megs of ram. I get to the part here you pick which type of install you want (recommended, custom, or expert), and when I pick one, my computer freezes. I don't know what the deal is. If anyone can help me I would be thenkful.
Re: [newbie] Installation problem with 7.0
What is your video card/device. It sounds to me as though it can not handle the graph. install so you will need to run the install in text mode. Charles - Original Message - From: "Phiber" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 7:24 PM Subject: [newbie] Installation problem with 7.0 I am trying to install Mandrake 7.0 on a 200 with 32 megs of ram. I get to the part here you pick which type of install you want (recommended, custom, or expert), and when I pick one, my computer freezes. I don't know what the deal is. If anyone can help me I would be thenkful.
RE: [newbie] Installation problem with 7.0
The video card is a Trident 9685 PCI with a voodoo 2 accelerater. How do I boot into text mode? -Original Message- From: Charles A Edwards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 2:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Installation problem with 7.0 What is your video card/device. It sounds to me as though it can not handle the graph. install so you will need to run the install in text mode. Charles - Original Message - From: "Phiber" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 7:24 PM Subject: [newbie] Installation problem with 7.0 I am trying to install Mandrake 7.0 on a 200 with 32 megs of ram. I get to the part here you pick which type of install you want (recommended, custom, or expert), and when I pick one, my computer freezes. I don't know what the deal is. If anyone can help me I would be thenkful.
[newbie] Installation Problem
I'm installing Linux Mandrake 7.0 on a clean hard drive auto allocated for linux. During the install, I choose what packages to install. If I choose to install the KDE GUI, when the system reboots I get an error, KDM: error in loading shared libraries: libz.so.1: cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory If I choose to install the gnome GUI instead, I get the same error after reboot except that it is GDM instead of KDM. Please help... David
Re: [newbie] Installation Problem
David Brown wrote: I'm installing Linux Mandrake 7.0 on a clean hard drive auto allocated for linux. During the install, I choose what packages to install. If I choose to install the KDE GUI, when the system reboots I get an error, KDM: error in loading shared libraries: libz.so.1: cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory If I choose to install the gnome GUI instead, I get the same error after reboot except that it is GDM instead of KDM. Please help... David what video board you have...?? is it integrated in the motherboard...?
Re: [newbie] Installation Problem
frank wrote: David Brown wrote: I'm installing Linux Mandrake 7.0 on a clean hard drive auto allocated for linux. During the install, I choose what packages to install. If I choose to install the KDE GUI, when the system reboots I get an error, KDM: error in loading shared libraries: libz.so.1: cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory If I choose to install the gnome GUI instead, I get the same error after reboot except that it is GDM instead of KDM. Please help... David what video board you have...?? is it integrated in the motherboard...? also what type of install did you do server, developer, recomended?? and what packages did you chose?
[newbie] Installation Problem with Linux Mandrake 7.0 Complete software
I have not been able to complete installation via the graphical installer that comes with the subject package. I encountered a system hang up after the graphical installer(DrakX) completed the package installation step and had gone to the network configuration step. I did not get a question regarding the type of network like LAN or Modem connection like the instruction suggested I would. I could see the Hard Drive being accessed and periodically the CDROM with the software was accessed. However it went on for at least an hour in that state. It seemed to be in a big loop. The software packages step was executed successfully. There was no error message. Any help to get me past the network configuration step would be appreciated.
[newbie] Installation Problem
Hi, and thanks ahead of time. I downloaded the 7.0 ISO and burned it to a CD-RW, and am installing off it. Everything works absolutely fine up until it get to the X configuration.. it sends the screen to my monitor fine.. high resolution.. at the point where it asks "Is this correct? Leaving in # seconds". And if I select either Yes or No, it goes to the next screen - which looks exactly the same to me.. but that next screen is messed up - the lines are interlapping and it is all displaced. I'm using a 4MB Voodoo Rush video card, with a 17" Panasonic E70 Monitor. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks Again. Kefka. _ Get Paid to Surf http://all.frodo.com
[newbie] installation problem
Hi, I am a complete Linux newbie and not a whole lot farther along w/ computers as a whole. I have repartitioned my hd using partition magic and tried to install a copy of mandrake 6.1(helios). Both disk druid and fdisk off the mandrake cd fail to see the swap and ext2 files that I see in windows and msdos fdisk. How can i get around this problem and get linux to load? thanks __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
RE: [newbie] Installation Problem
Umm, sounds like a faulty RAM chip or two. On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Huelskamp, VT wrote: I take it that no one has any idea?? -Original Message- From: Huelskamp, VT Sent: Monday, April 10, 2000 3:27 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]@inter2' Subject: [newbie] Installation Problem Sensitivity: Personal While installing 7.0 on a Dell Dimension, 400mhz Celeron, after you select the packages, the install program shuts down with an error " Exited Abnormally, Received Signal 11" ?? What is going on? Version 6.0 installed with little problems. TIA VT Huelskamp -- Microsoft gives you Windows... Linux gives you the whole house.
RE: [newbie] Installation Problem
Hello. What is the Mainboard and Chipset? If its a 810-chipset (integrated graphics) -- put a handle on it and throw it away. :(( What is the name of the graphics adapter? Bye, Drosti -Original Message- From: Huelskamp, VT Sent: Monday, April 10, 2000 3:27 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]@inter2' Subject: [newbie] Installation Problem Sensitivity: Personal While installing 7.0 on a Dell Dimension, 400mhz Celeron, after you select the packages, the install program shuts down with an error " Exited Abnormally, Received Signal 11" ?? What is going on? Version 6.0 installed with little problems. TIA VT Huelskamp -- Sent through GMX FreeMail - http://www.gmx.net
RE: [newbie] Installation Problem
signal 11 is probably a protection signal from the processor. or in English the installer is running in 'protected' mode, this means it can protect your computers resources from bugs, malicious , or badly written programs causing to much damage, when a program tries to access something it shouldn't, a signal is generated to the installer (11 in your case) I'm sure someone who can remember what signal 11 is can give you a better description of your problem, or you can look it up on the web, try searching for DPMI documentation, or looking at Intel's manuals on there web site. basically a bit of the installer has a bug in it(though I'm not sure what). if it's as soon as the installer loads it may be having problems with your cd-rom drive or bios, make sure the pnpos option is off in the bios. (any other suggestions?). if it's further through the installation process try not installing things through the installer, you can always install them later. -Original Message- From: Huelskamp, VT [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 11 April 2000 12:08 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]@inter2' Subject: RE: [newbie] Installation Problem Sensitivity: Personal I take it that no one has any idea?? -Original Message- From: Huelskamp, VT Sent: Monday, April 10, 2000 3:27 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]@inter2' Subject: [newbie] Installation Problem Sensitivity: Personal While installing 7.0 on a Dell Dimension, 400mhz Celeron, after you select the packages, the install program shuts down with an error " Exited Abnormally, Received Signal 11" ?? What is going on? Version 6.0 installed with little problems. TIA VT Huelskamp
RE: [newbie] Installation Problem
Umm, sounds like a faulty RAM chip or two. On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Huelskamp, VT wrote: I take it that no one has any idea?? -Original Message- From: Huelskamp, VT Sent: Monday, April 10, 2000 3:27 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]@inter2' Subject: [newbie] Installation Problem Sensitivity: Personal While installing 7.0 on a Dell Dimension, 400mhz Celeron, after you select the packages, the install program shuts down with an error " Exited Abnormally, Received Signal 11" ?? What is going on? Version 6.0 installed with little problems. TIA VT Huelskamp -- Microsoft gives you Windows... Linux gives you the whole house.
RE: [newbie] Installation Problem
Not necessarily. 7.0 had a few problems. You may want to get 7.0-2. Also, if I recall correctly, I got an error similar to yours when I tried to install on an over-clocked CPU. Bryan "Huelskamp, VT" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 04/11/2000 07:08:03 AM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]@inter2'" [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Bryan Moorehead/Link/Allied Holdings) Subject: RE: [newbie] Installation Problem I take it that no one has any idea?? -Original Message- From: Huelskamp, VT Sent: Monday, April 10, 2000 3:27 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]@inter2' Subject: [newbie] Installation Problem Sensitivity: Personal While installing 7.0 on a Dell Dimension, 400mhz Celeron, after you select the packages, the install program shuts down with an error " Exited Abnormally, Received Signal 11" ?? What is going on? Version 6.0 installed with little problems. TIA VT Huelskamp
Re: [RE: [newbie] Installation Problem]
MDK 7.0 has known install bugs...try using 7.02 HTH Jaguar "Huelskamp, VT" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I take it that no one has any idea?? -Original Message- From: Huelskamp, VT Sent: Monday, April 10, 2000 3:27 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]@inter2' Subject: [newbie] Installation Problem Sensitivity: Personal While installing 7.0 on a Dell Dimension, 400mhz Celeron, after you select the packages, the install program shuts down with an error " Exited Abnormally, Received Signal 11" ?? What is going on? Version 6.0 installed with little problems. TIA VT Huelskamp Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [newbie] Installation Problem
Could also be the PC-Chips Virus software or simular type of virus software, that has to be DISABLED as well as the PNP when loading Linux. don I thought I knew that I knew what I thought But now I know that what I thought I knew Isn't what I know I think I thought I knew. On Tue, 11 Apr 2000 12:23:27 +0100 Oliver Stieber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: signal 11 is probably a protection signal from the processor. or in English the installer is running in 'protected' mode, this means it can protect your computers resources from bugs, malicious , or badly written programs causing to much damage, when a program tries to access something it shouldn't, a signal is generated to the installer (11 in your case) I'm sure someone who can remember what signal 11 is can give you a better description of your problem, or you can look it up on the web, try searching for DPMI documentation, or looking at Intel's manuals on there web site. basically a bit of the installer has a bug in it(though I'm not sure what). if it's as soon as the installer loads it may be having problems with your cd-rom drive or bios, make sure the pnpos option is off in the bios. (any other suggestions?). if it's further through the installation process try not installing things through the installer, you can always install them later. -Original Message- From: Huelskamp, VT [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 11 April 2000 12:08 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]@inter2' Subject: RE: [newbie] Installation Problem Sensitivity: Personal I take it that no one has any idea?? -Original Message- From: Huelskamp, VT Sent: Monday, April 10, 2000 3:27 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]@inter2' Subject: [newbie] Installation Problem Sensitivity: Personal While installing 7.0 on a Dell Dimension, 400mhz Celeron, after you select the packages, the install program shuts down with an error " Exited Abnormally, Received Signal 11" ?? What is going on? Version 6.0 installed with little problems. TIA VT Huelskamp YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.
RE: [newbie] Installation Problem
I take it that no one has any idea?? -Original Message- From: Huelskamp, VT Sent: Monday, April 10, 2000 3:27 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]@inter2' Subject: [newbie] Installation Problem Sensitivity: Personal While installing 7.0 on a Dell Dimension, 400mhz Celeron, after you select the packages, the install program shuts down with an error " Exited Abnormally, Received Signal 11" ?? What is going on? Version 6.0 installed with little problems. TIA VT Huelskamp
[newbie] Installation Problem
While installing 7.0 on a Dell Dimension, 400mhz Celeron, after you select the packages, the install program shuts down with an error " Exited Abnormally, Received Signal 11" ?? What is going on? Version 6.0 installed with little problems. TIA VT Huelskamp
[newbie] Installation problem (lan card)
Hello Guys, Good day to all!!! I have a problem in the installation process particularly in detecting my lan card "rl100a" i already tried everything setting it up manualy but still it wont be able to detect the lan card... could anybody give me a solution on how will manage this for my lan card to working. I am using Mandrake 6 and my lan card is "rl100" compex Thanks... Chavie
[newbie] Installation problem
I'm trying to install Mandrake 7 on a Pentium 100 with a 32 Mb Memory. When I boot off through diskette it process smoothly through the initial portion of the installation. After the screen display "second stage install" things go bad I receive an error message reading: _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: error=111 _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: error=111 Sun Mar 26 23:16:00 2000 Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0 at /usr/lib/perl-install/my_gtk.pm line 139 He cannot perform installation in the second stage. What shall I do to solve that problem? John Alex M. Reyroso
[newbie] Installation problem
I'm trying to install Mandrake 7 on a Pentium 100 with a 32 Mb Memory. When I boot off through diskette it process smoothly through the initial portion of the installation. After the screen display "second stage install" things go bad I receive an error message reading: _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: error=111 _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: error=111 Sun Mar 26 23:16:00 2000 Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0 at /usr/lib/perl-install/my_gtk.pm line 139 He cannot perform installation in the second stage. What shall I do to solve that problem? John Alex M. Reyroso
[newbie] Installation problem - _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect error
I'm trying to install McMillan's Mandrake 7.0 on a Pentium box. This box will be a dual-boot machine with Win95 if all goes well. Win95 is already installed in a small partition, and I used the PartitionMagic tool to create a big partition for Linux. When I boot off either the CD or the Mandrake diskette all proceeds smoothly through the initial portion of the install. After the screen displays "in second stage install", though, things go bad quickly. I receive an error message reading: _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: error=111 _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: error=111 Sun Mar 26 23:16:00 2000 Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0 at /usr/lib/perl-install/my_gtk.pm line 139 followed by a few lines of "sending term signals", etc. The process then dies. What is the likely cause of this error? I've never seen anything like this in my previous installs of RedHat or Mandrake 6. Dan Mahoney [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Installation problem
I'm trying to install Mandrake 7 on a Pentium 100 with a 32 Mb Memory. When I boot off through diskette it process smoothly through the initial portion of the installation. After the screen display "second stage install" things go bad I receive an error message reading: _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: error=111 _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: error=111 Sun Mar 26 23:16:00 2000 Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0 at /usr/lib/perl-install/my_gtk.pm line 139 He cannot perform installation in the second stage. What shall I do to solve that problem? John Alex M. Reyroso
Re: [newbie] installation problem: no enough disk space
On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Jackal wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 i have amd k6/2 450 Mhz no problem so far...humming along just fine On 16-Jul-99 J Mann wrote: -- From: Chun-wah Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] installation problem: no enough disk space Date: Wednesday, July 14, 1999 1:48 PM hi I have installed mandrake 6.0 in my AMD6-2 300 PC with 64MB RAM and 4.3G hard drive. I have tried making 1004MB linux ext2 partition (for path / ) and 70MB swap: 1) by partition magic under win 98; and 2) by disk druid from empty space during installation. however, in either case, I got the following error msgs: First of all, Mandrake is optimized for INTEL chips. So it may crash or not work properly with AMD chips. Correction, Mandrake 6.0 is optimized for the i586 architechure, this includes INTEL CYRIX and AMD chips. (after choosing packages) error msg: You don't appear to have enough disk space to install the packages you've selected. you need more space on the following filesystems: Mount point space needed / 290M Try and make these partitions. / /usr /home If you ever have to reinstall again, your /home directory will be fine and won't be reformatted. Jeremy - - PGP Public Key : http://jackal.dhis.org/jackal.txt http://pgp5.ai.mit.edu/pks-commands.html ICQ # : 38756924 Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last. -- Marcus Aurelius - - -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use Charset: noconv iQA/AwUBN47Zp9/tgTsNXrtmEQI8EACeLG1pwO11itdC8FW3pKhzbQdcAJwAn3m2 EsjIgQ0L9hGMRPP1SCinYsmC =8cMa -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie] installation problem: no enough disk space
hi everybody, thank you so much for your advice. I have solved my problem by putting all empty space in my harddisk into a dos partitition. before this I had about 200MB free space at the beginning of my extended partition. I suspect the installation problem tried to mount the / path into this free space even though I choose the 1004MB ext2 logical partition as my / mount point in disk druid. the installation problem does not follow this instruction. there may be some bugs in the installation program. however, since those situations with 200MB free space at the beginning of the extended partition such as mine may be rare, people may not need to fix it. best, cw
Re: [newbie] installation problem: no enough disk space
-- From: Chun-wah Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] installation problem: no enough disk space Date: Wednesday, July 14, 1999 1:48 PM hi I have installed mandrake 6.0 in my AMD6-2 300 PC with 64MB RAM and 4.3G hard drive. I have tried making 1004MB linux ext2 partition (for path / ) and 70MB swap: 1) by partition magic under win 98; and 2) by disk druid from empty space during installation. however, in either case, I got the following error msgs: First of all, Mandrake is optimized for INTEL chips. So it may crash or not work properly with AMD chips. (after choosing packages) error msg: You don't appear to have enough disk space to install the packages you've selected. you need more space on the following filesystems: Mount point space needed / 290M Try and make these partitions. / /usr /home If you ever have to reinstall again, your /home directory will be fine and won't be reformatted. Jeremy
[newbie] installation problem: no enough disk space
hi I have installed mandrake 6.0 in my AMD6-2 300 PC with 64MB RAM and 4.3G hard drive. I have tried making 1004MB linux ext2 partition (for path / ) and 70MB swap: 1) by partition magic under win 98; and 2) by disk druid from empty space during installation. however, in either case, I got the following error msgs: (after choosing packages) error msg: You don't appear to have enough disk space to install the packages you've selected. you need more space on the following filesystems: Mount point space needed / 290M I choose "Install anyway". then all packages are installed. (configuration starts) error msg: An error occured during step "configure mouse" of the installlation. then I cannot go further. if I jump to the end by clicking "menu", then I obtain: error msg: I cannnot run /mnt//sbin/mkinitrd: No such file or directory. I have looked for the cdrom, FAQs, manuals, updates and even the redhat 6.0 updates sites and installed the new boot diskette (from mandrake site). but all efforts fail. if you have any idea, pls let me know. thank you in advance. -- chun wah
Re: [newbie] installation problem: no enough disk space
Seems you ran out of space on your root partition. Don't forget, everything you don't put in a separate partition goes in your / Ok, I'll try to make this a step by step. First of all, don't use disk druid to partition your disk, it is a question of taste, but once you get used to fdisk, you'll stick to it. It is way easyer to manipulate. You have a 4.3gig HD, and have 1gig for linux. With 64megs of ram, you'll want about 90megs of swap. When setup offers you the different partitioning tools, select fdisk. First type p to have a look at your current partition table. You should see your 3,4 gig windows partition, marked as fat or vfat-win95. If that is all you have, skip the * * If you have left overs from other installs, get rid of them. Note the numbers of the partitions, and delete every partition except your windows partition. To do this, type d and then the number of the partition you want to delete To create the swap partition, type n folowed by the number of the partition you want to create. Type 1 for the number and accept the default start cylinder. enter +90M for the size. Next you will have to change the partition type. Linux swap is type 83 (double check though by pressing t and looking at the list, I could be wrong for the number). Enter the number of the partition you want to change the type for, and the type of partition you want to change it into. Next, create a / partition. Make this big enough. Unless you want to run a server, you can put all linux in one partition. Ideal is to separate /home and /usr from your / partition, that way, you can keep them untouched in case of a full reinstall. With one gig, I'd create about 700 megs for / and the rest for /home So, press n again, choose the partition number you want to create (you'll be at '3' now) and accept the default start cylinder. Type +700M for the size and leave the type untouched Press n again, choose the partition number (4) and accept the default start cylinder again. This time, also accept the default end cylinder. Have a last look at the partition table pressing p and if all seems OK press w to write the new partitions to disk. Fdisk wil exit and you can continue the install. Next diskdruid will pop up to ask you for the mounting points of your disk. If you want acces to your dos partition, select it and give it a logical name, ex: mount it under /dos the 700 meg partition should recieve / as mounting point, and the 200 meg partition should get /home. Don't mount the swap partition. Exit diskdruid and this time install should just be fine. Hope I was clear with this, I know what I meant, just don't know if I wrote it down in an understandable way ;o) Patrick Brussels Belgium - Original Message - From: Chun-wah Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 1999 8:48 PM Subject: [newbie] installation problem: no enough disk space hi I have installed mandrake 6.0 in my AMD6-2 300 PC with 64MB RAM and 4.3G hard drive. I have tried making 1004MB linux ext2 partition (for path / ) and 70MB swap: 1) by partition magic under win 98; and 2) by disk druid from empty space during installation. however, in either case, I got the following error msgs: (after choosing packages) error msg: You don't appear to have enough disk space to install the packages you've selected. you need more space on the following filesystems: Mount point space needed / 290M I choose "Install anyway". then all packages are installed. (configuration starts) error msg: An error occured during step "configure mouse" of the installlation. then I cannot go further. if I jump to the end by clicking "menu", then I obtain: error msg: I cannnot run /mnt//sbin/mkinitrd: No such file or directory. I have looked for the cdrom, FAQs, manuals, updates and even the redhat 6.0 updates sites and installed the new boot diskette (from mandrake site). but all efforts fail. if you have any idea, pls let me know. thank you in advance. -- chun wah
Re: [newbie] installation problem: no enough disk space
Hello, What this means is that your partition is too small for the installation you have chosen. When you say it "installs" the remaining packages, it really isn't adding these packages to what you have already installed. I'm not sure what it does, but it may overwrite other data, or just mimmick the install procedure. I'd make a bigger ext2 partition. Hope I can help... Mike On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Chun-wah Liu wrote: hi I have installed mandrake 6.0 in my AMD6-2 300 PC with 64MB RAM and 4.3G hard drive. I have tried making 1004MB linux ext2 partition (for path / ) and 70MB swap: 1) by partition magic under win 98; and 2) by disk druid from empty space during installation. however, in either case, I got the following error msgs: (after choosing packages) error msg: You don't appear to have enough disk space to install the packages you've selected. you need more space on the following filesystems: Mount point space needed / 290M I choose "Install anyway". then all packages are installed. (configuration starts) error msg: An error occured during step "configure mouse" of the installlation. then I cannot go further. if I jump to the end by clicking "menu", then I obtain: error msg: I cannnot run /mnt//sbin/mkinitrd: No such file or directory. I have looked for the cdrom, FAQs, manuals, updates and even the redhat 6.0 updates sites and installed the new boot diskette (from mandrake site). but all efforts fail. if you have any idea, pls let me know. thank you in advance. -- chun wah --- Mike Ortiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Interrim Systems Administrator La Plaza Telecommunity 224 Cruz Alta Rd. Suite F Taos, NM 87571 (505)758-1836 ---
Re: [newbie] installation problem: no enough disk space
Looks like you selected "install all" from a custom install if so increase / to about 2gig On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Chun-wah Liu wrote: hi I have installed mandrake 6.0 in my AMD6-2 300 PC with 64MB RAM and 4.3G hard drive. I have tried making 1004MB linux ext2 partition (for path / ) and 70MB swap: 1) by partition magic under win 98; and 2) by disk druid from empty space during installation. however, in either case, I got the following error msgs: (after choosing packages) error msg: You don't appear to have enough disk space to install the packages you've selected. you need more space on the following filesystems: Mount point space needed / 290M I choose "Install anyway". then all packages are installed. (configuration starts) error msg: An error occured during step "configure mouse" of the installlation. then I cannot go further. if I jump to the end by clicking "menu", then I obtain: error msg: I cannnot run /mnt//sbin/mkinitrd: No such file or directory. I have looked for the cdrom, FAQs, manuals, updates and even the redhat 6.0 updates sites and installed the new boot diskette (from mandrake site). but all efforts fail. if you have any idea, pls let me know. thank you in advance. -- chun wah
Re: [newbie] Installation problem - Help with CD-ROM
KDE/Mandrake Fresh Documentation manual http://www.linuxmandrake.com/userguide/ Paul A. Bernicchi wrote: Good afternoon. I just purchased Mandrake 5.2 and cannot install it... I am booting from CD-ROM, and it carries me through the installation process until it asks for the type of media from which it will install. I select Local CDROM, it says, "Initializing CDROM" and freezes. Primary Master - Maxtor 5.1 gig IDE Primary Slave - WD Caviar 540 (I will be installing Linux on this drive) Secondary Master - Pioneer A24X ATAPI-compliant CD-ROM Any ideas? I bought Mandrake thorugh Linux Mall so I don't have any boot disks, etc... just whatever docs are on the CD. Thanks, Paul
