Hello All, from The Other
Dennis, the CDs arrived. Thank you.
3 hours of 37 different combinations of installing, and the Kernel package failed to install each time. Same results with the replacement CD1 and the original distro CD1. Obviuously, my problem isn't with the CDs.
I tried Journalized Ext3 and Linux Native Ext2 file systems.
This is a 1998 Asus P2B motherboard that installed Bamboo once, the very first time I installed. No joy since.
How big should the / (root) partition be? On that single successful installed Mandrake chose 5GB if I remember correctly. I've been trying 6GB or larger since. Is that my problem?
Or does it make a difference which sector I begin the root partition? Does it make a difference on which of 2 drives I install root?
What are the special requirements for root? Am I having trouble because somewhere I'm spanning a 1024-cylinder boundary?
If my system had never installed Bamboo, I would consider a hardware incompatibility problem. But now it appears there's something in my installation configuration that's messing up Kernel.
Any ideas what that could be?
Oh, anyway to print out the installation logs as the CD boots. I noticed a message to the effect:
error opening Mandrake base patch in .... somefile name on CD1
The message went by to quickly to get the details. Would it help if I could capture those logs as they scroll by?
Thanks All The Other
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