Re: [expert] Laptop installation problems, part 2

2000-01-26 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, you wrote: > forgot a command to run.. > > 3) chroot /mnt /bin/bash > > > Then, it *should* work, I think... > > John > > > Thanks...I've never had to do thatit just automagically worked for me... :-) John

Re: [expert] Laptop installation problems, part 2

2000-01-25 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Stout, Wayne wrote: > Greetings, everyone. > > I'm still unable to boot into Mandrake 6.1 on my laptop. I've tried some of > the suggestions that were given to me when I first asked about this a couple > of weeks ago. > > To rehash: > > Acer TravelMate 512DX, Celeron 366,

Re: [expert] Laptop installation problems, part 2

2000-01-25 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, John Aldrich wrote: > On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, you wrote: > > I've booted with Tom's root boot disk, and tried to follow the tip that John > > suggested, mounting hda2 to /mnt, chroot to the mount point and running > > setup, but chroot gives me a usage error. (usage: chroot dire

Re: [expert] Laptop installation problems, part 2

2000-01-25 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, you wrote: > I've booted with Tom's root boot disk, and tried to follow the tip that John > suggested, mounting hda2 to /mnt, chroot to the mount point and running > setup, but chroot gives me a usage error. (usage: chroot directory program > [arg ...]) I try to run /mnt/usr/s

[expert] Laptop installation problems, part 2

2000-01-24 Thread Stout, Wayne
Greetings, everyone. I'm still unable to boot into Mandrake 6.1 on my laptop. I've tried some of the suggestions that were given to me when I first asked about this a couple of weeks ago. To rehash: Acer TravelMate 512DX, Celeron 366, 32 meg ram, 4.3 gig drive, dual boot with Win98SE. I've trie