Re: [newbie] Installation boot Kernel hang

2003-02-06 Thread Simon Hosking
g'day walt, booting from alt2 works: the kernel loads. there are a couple of warning messages during install that i should be using a 2.4 kernel, rather than 2.2. Have you had any problems with this? walt wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 16:21, Simon Hosking wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm trying to insta

Re: [newbie] Installation boot Kernel hang

2003-02-06 Thread Simon Hosking
walt wrote: __ > try an alternate kernel...when you boot to the CD, hit F2 instead of enter and type >alt2 or which ever kernel you want to use..I have to use alt2 for my system > > Walt sorry, not very familiar with alternati

Re: [newbie] Installation boot Kernel hang

2003-02-06 Thread Brad Grissom
I had a similar issue on a machine. It turned out to be my CD's. I tried new, freshly burned CDs and it worked fine. ~~Brad On Thursday 06 February 2003 02:21 pm, you wrote: > Hi, > I'm trying to install Mandrake 9.0 on a Toshiba Satellite 2430 laptop > (P4 2.4, 256MB, NVidia 4GO 420). > Using

Re: [newbie] Installation boot Kernel hang

2003-02-06 Thread walt
On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 16:21, Simon Hosking wrote: > Hi, > I'm trying to install Mandrake 9.0 on a Toshiba Satellite 2430 laptop > (P4 2.4, 256MB, NVidia 4GO 420). > Using the install guidelines, I've tried to install booting from CD and > boot floppy (using cdrom.img). In each case, the graphical i

[newbie] Installation boot Kernel hang

2003-02-06 Thread Simon Hosking
Hi, I'm trying to install Mandrake 9.0 on a Toshiba Satellite 2430 laptop (P4 2.4, 256MB, NVidia 4GO 420). Using the install guidelines, I've tried to install booting from CD and boot floppy (using cdrom.img). In each case, the graphical installation screen gives the option of pressing enter for a