Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.0 installation hangs

[wouter pos]

I had have the same problem HELP US

greetings wouter pos


--- Marc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I have a set of 9.0 CDs that I am shure are good
 because 
 I have used them to install 9.0 on 2 other machines.
 Last 
 night I went to install mandrake on a friends
 machine , 
 things seemed to be going well  for the first minite
 or 2 and 
 then it hung while on hard drive detection part of
 the 
 installation.
I tried to repeat the installation several times
 useing  the 
 reccomended and then the expert mode. I even tried
 to use 
 Partition Magic to repartiton the hard drive first
 still no luck.
This machine allready has windoze 98se installed
 on a 60 
 GB western digital hard drive, Athlon 1.7XP
 processor and 
 256 MB ram  I was useing a cd drive installed on IDE
 
 channel 2 and operating as a slave.
Could this be the problem ?
 I have never tried to install off a cd that was a
 slave before 
 however it seems to me that It should be ok.
   Any one have any Ideas where this installation is
 going 
 wrong?
 
 Thanks in advance
 Marc
 
 
 
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Re: [newbie]

[wouter pos]

Dear people of mandrake mailinglist,

I have a problem with the installation of mandrake
9.0,

I used to have a slackware distribution installed but
it took too much of linux experience (which i don't
really have yet). I was recommended to install
mandrake.

So i made an install of mandrake: everything went
well:
I formatted the old linux partition (4.0 GB) and swap
space (125 MB) (HD is 40 GB total ~36 GB is used for
Win98).

I chose everything from the mandrake desktop
possibilities to choose from.

When the installation was completed successfully the
system was rebooted and the linux loader came up.
Linux was chosen and then my computer hanged.

With the next check line my computer hanged:

Finding module dependencies: .

And then my computer didn't respond to anything.

I did a reinstall and the same problem occured.
I did a upgrade and installed some more features and
again my computer hanged but with another check line
namely:

Enabling swap space .

And then my computer didn't respond to anything.

Every time i did a reboot the system gave an error
that my hda3 wasn't completely well mounted so a check
force was needed and within 4.7% my computer hangs
again

What is the problem??? I stayed up till 4 in the
morning coping with this problem Please help me!!!

Is my swap space too small? Is the hda3 not fully
formatted? Is my computer not compatible with
mandrake? 

(I am running windows98 beside mandrake and using a
asus a7n266 with integrated nForce video chipset and a
AMD athlon 1700+ with 385 MB of DDR ram, plextor
writer and a sony cdrom player)

I hope u can help me ty in advance,

Greetings Wouter Pos 
The netherlands.

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