Re: [newbie] Install fails

2002-12-08 Thread Martin L. Johansen
On Sunday 08 December 2002 02:42, walt wrote: It could be that mandrake 9.0 is not compatible with your machine. I had to put mandrake 8.2 on my computer, which works beautifully, make a boot disk using an older kernel image, boot to that disk and then was able to do an update to 8.2. If I

[newbie] Install fails

2002-12-07 Thread Dan Cox
I'm receiving the following error while trying to install Mandrake 9.0. error in exec of stage2 :-( trying to execute '/usr/bin/runinstall2' from the installation volume, the following fatal error occurred FATAL ERROR IN STAGE1: Not a directory I can't recover from this. You may reboot your

Re: [newbie] Install fails

2002-12-07 Thread Martin L. Johansen
On Sunday 08 December 2002 01:38, Dan Cox wrote: This happens almost immediately after I hot enter at the Press enter to install Mandrake screen.I've tried using different disks thinking maybe the disk was scratched and also tried a text install with the same results.Any help is appreciated.

Re: [newbie] Install fails

2002-12-07 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2002-12-08 at 11:38, Dan Cox wrote: I'm receiving the following error while trying to install Mandrake 9.0. error in exec of stage2 :-( trying to execute '/usr/bin/runinstall2' from the installation volume, the following fatal error occurred FATAL ERROR IN STAGE1: Not a directory

Re: [newbie] Install fails

2002-12-07 Thread Dan Cox
I just tried a network install and recieved the same error message. Dan Cox On Sat, 2002-12-07 at 17:38, Dan Cox wrote: I'm receiving the following error while trying to install Mandrake 9.0. error in exec of stage2 :-( trying to execute '/usr/bin/runinstall2' from the installation

Re: [newbie] Install fails

2002-12-07 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2002-12-08 at 12:14, Dan Cox wrote: I just tried a network install and recieved the same error message. Ehmmm...have you formatted / partitioned the drive that's your target? Or is there an existing installation of SOMETHING there? -- Sun Dec 8 12:20:01 EST 2002 12:20pm up

RE: [newbie] Install fails

2002-12-07 Thread walt
: Saturday, December 07, 2002 7:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Install fails I'm receiving the following error while trying to install Mandrake 9.0. error in exec of stage2 :-( trying to execute '/usr/bin/runinstall2' from the installation volume, the following fatal error occurred