Re: [newbie] Install troubles on Toshiba notebook - Mandrake 10.0

2004-07-27 Thread Bill Spatz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 27 July 2004 06:22 pm, Wafa Hakim wrote: > First, there is a dialog box saying: > Could not uncompress second stage ramdisk. There was probably > a hardware error in reading data. This sounds to me as one of the following: a - bad burn of

Re: [newbie] Install troubles on Toshiba notebook - Mandrake 10.0

2004-07-27 Thread Wafa Hakim
Hi, Thanks - I tried it, but no luck. I got exactly the same error messages, when I tried linux noapic & then again when I tried acpi=off. Here are the errors, in more detail: First, there is a dialog box saying: Could not uncompress second stage ramdisk. There was probably a hardware error in r

Re: [newbie] Install troubles on Toshiba notebook - Mandrake 10.0

2004-07-27 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Tuesday 27 July 2004 07:27 pm, Wafa Hakim wrote: > Should I just try installing 9.2, which I know works fine on my home > machine, & then upgrade 9.2 to the 2.6 kernel, since that contains some > newer acpi support that this laptop needs? You might try adding the linux noapic line to see if th

[newbie] Install troubles on Toshiba notebook - Mandrake 10.0

2004-07-27 Thread Wafa Hakim
Hi all, First up, let me introduce myself. I'm Wafa, a grad student of economics, & I've been running various versions of Mandrake for over a year now - I started with 9.0 & now have 9.2 running smoothly on a Dell desktop at home. The problem is with my Toshiba A45-S121 notebook, on which I'm t