[newbie] Making your own bootable CD

1999-06-05 Thread Greg Gray
I would like to make my own bootable CD of M6, including the latest release fixes.  Files will have to be d/ld via FTP to a Win NT box, then copied to a Win 98 box, which is where the CD will be burned.   Can someone point me to some explicit ('cause I'm a newbie!) instructions on how to do

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 6.0 upgrade woes, continued

1999-06-01 Thread Greg Gray
David, yes, I selected 'check for bad blocks during format'. Except for items 1 & 2 mentioned in post of 5/31 6:28PM, I always checked for bad blocks. Martin, unfortunately, memory is the one thing that I cannot check at this time. I have to base my assumptions on the fact that the memory seems

[newbie] Mandrake 6.0 upgrade woes, continued

1999-05-31 Thread Greg Gray
Thanks for replies to my posts.  Taking given suggestions, I attempted install again.   1.  Set partitions to 100M swap, 1000M / (growable), formatted, install failed with sig 11 during format of hda1 (/).   2.  Tried again, same parameters, same result.   3.  Tried again, this time selected

[newbie] Mandrake 6.0 upgrade woes, continued

1999-05-30 Thread Greg Gray
Continued from previous message...   Downloaded a new ISO image from another FTP site (different from first), burned another CD.  Booted from new CD, removed all partitions, created new partitions (200M swap, 800M /, 1000M /usr, 350M /var, 200M /usr/local - don't ask why I chose these, I'm po

[newbie] Mandrake 6.0 pgrade woes

1999-05-30 Thread Greg Gray
I am having extreme difficulties installing/upgrading to Mandrake 6.0.  My system is a Pentium 133 w/ 48 Meg RAM, 1.2 & 1.6 HDD, S3 Virge DX w/ 4 Meg, no Modem, 2 NICs (1 for cable modem, 1 for internal net), dedicated to Linux.   I successfully installed RH 5.1, then new install of RH 5.2,