Re: [newbie] Boot hang

1999-08-17 Thread Rick Fry
I just set my partitions up witht he swap and the / linux native and Mandrake did the rest. Get it installed first and then decide what other goodies you want to add. That's one of the many bugs in RedHat's install program. Mine kept wanting to toss a double slash in the path to one of the

[newbie] Boot hang

1999-08-16 Thread Victor Richardson
I have a P100, 48 megs, 6.4 gig system that I did the standard server install from Mandrake 6.0 after partitioning the drive using fdisk. After getting an initial disk error "1790", it recognized my disk properly as a Maxtor 90648D3 6.4 gig and I was allowed to create "hda1" of 128 megs for SWAP,

[newbie] boot hang up

1999-08-02 Thread Daniel Wheeler
I have installed linux mandrake 6.0 on my PC with a 1Gig hard disk. Everytime I try to boot for the first time after installation it hangs at the following stage: creating /mnt/disk[OK] after this nothing happens can you help?