People have suggested that my problem may be memory-size related, but 1) non-laptop 16MB didn't have this problem, 2)I would presume when the installation script starts, it checks the amount of the available memory, and no warning appeared on screen nor in logs.
We want to have the same linux distribution on all the machines here. Well so I started with downloaded 8.2 mandrake installing it onto a 16MB Pentium 133 laptop. But it is not working out for us here so far. Any advice ? (Since we don't have access to a CDROM burner, it has to be an NFS install, and on this laptop it has to be with PCMCIA.) we tried installing as "linux display=..." and "text", but both give us same result: Got images/pcmcia.img. Booted, selected text install, it detected PCMCIA, network card. Found mdk 8.2 on NFS server, disconnected life support systems and the famous last words were: found /tmp/network found network config file /tmp/ifcfg-eth0 found network config file /tmp/resolv.conf and on Alt-1 I got: in second stage install and about 2 seconds after Alt-2 gives a prompt, install exited abnormally :-( sending termination signals...done any advice is appreciated. We would really like to use mandrake on our machines here. ... thanks, john (To get linux onto the laptop, which linux distro should I try next?) I should add: I don't need to install any graphical software on the laptop. I don't need to run any desktop on it. (even though being able to start an X app on the laptop, displaying it over ethernet on a nearby desktop would be nice). Also I just tried a "text" install on a 16MB machine (not laptop), using "network.img", and the installation did not bomb out after going second stage ... So is there something wrong with the PCMCIA install ? ______________________________________________________________________ Music, Movies, Sports, Games! http://entertainment.yahoo.ca
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