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Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 12:32 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] it won't install :(
> mm-hmm, and it takes about half an hour to format the disk. I don't use
it
> that much, but I don't use CDRW disks that much either.
>
> - Original Message -
> From: &q
mm-hmm, and it takes about half an hour to format the disk. I don't use it
that much, but I don't use CDRW disks that much either.
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From: "Goldenpi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 1
daptec s/w on my wife's Dell. I ship my stuff over
there on the LAN & read the result on my new CD-ROM drive. And $1
for a CD-R or $1.50 for a CD-R/W sure beats $15 to $30 for a TR-3.
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From: "Larry Marshall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[
> I've been really enjoying your responses here on the list!
I'm really enjoying it here as well and have learned quite a bit
already.
> That being said, I haven't really come up with a workable, steady backup solution
>yet other than keep /home on it's own partition and tarballing data file
Larry Marshall wrote:
>
> > I know what you mean...I'm hoping that some of this is addressed in Mandrake 7.2.
>
> Truth is, as bad as Windoze is, it's spoiled us. Unix has always been
> the superior OS but Microsoft knew what problems most people needed
> solving and in a standalone environment
> I know what you mean...I'm hoping that some of this is addressed in Mandrake 7.2.
Truth is, as bad as Windoze is, it's spoiled us. Unix has always been
the superior OS but Microsoft knew what problems most people needed
solving and in a standalone environment they did pretty well at
eliminati
ed of putting
my finger on the motherboard to get it to boot up :-)
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From: Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, September 04, 2000 6:20 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] it won't install :(
> nope, just tried it, made my DVD drive the b
Go to mandrakes home page (http://www.linux-mandrake.com) and go to the Demo's
page. There is a walk through on how to set up your cdr/w.
Alternately, you can go to http://mandrakeuser.org, go to the hardware section
and follow the instructions for setting up a cdr/w there. Both use different
well I did burn them myself, but did not get any error messages during the burn...
(maybe when I
have more time I'll try again... thanks for the input guys/girls...
Mark Weaver wrote:
> Paul wrote:
> >
> > and as i said before, friend of my installed a copy of Mandrake off the same DVD I
>have
and as i said before, friend of my installed a copy of Mandrake off the same DVD I
have now
in the same omputer that I have now...
Mark Weaver wrote:
> Ok...um...not DVD, but CDROM. There is a difference in the way a DVD and
> CDROM read and handle data transfer, albeit in some cases a minute
>
?
Vincent
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From: Mark Weaver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, September 04, 2000 3:43 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] it won't install :(
Ok...um...not DVD, but CDROM. There is a difference in the way a DVD and
CDROM read and handle data transfer,
Ok...um...not DVD, but CDROM. There is a difference in the way a DVD and
CDROM read and handle data transfer, albeit in some cases a minute
difference, still there is a difference. And these are strictly data CD's
that you're dealing with. Not movies.
yes, I know that they're both digital in natu
I know what you mean...I'm hoping that some of this is addressed in
Mandrake 7.2. As you've said it's not the OS proper but rather the
utilities that are handling the hardware ops that are just not up to snuff
yet. Thankfully that is changing though.
And you are correct in what you've said about
hmm i think you will need better support from mandrake are you booting from
windose or are you starting the system cold onto the cd?
"Mark Weaver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes in part:
>
> Anyway, CD-RW's are not the same kind of CD hardware in that they 'read'
> somewhat differently. In some instances they won't read regular data CD's
> because of the formatting. An example of this is a re-writable CD is a
> data CD that can on
nope, just tried it, made my DVD drive the bootable one, same problem: 'Error creating
second stage RAMDISK' when it is creating it, the progress bar reaches the end but at
the end it spits out the error message... it's not the RAM, I cleaned it as well...
(sigh)
no linux for me (I could try somet
> Anyway, CD-RW's are not the same kind of CD hardware in that they 'read'
> somewhat differently. In some instances they won't read regular data CD's
> because of the formatting. An example of this is a re-writable CD is a
> data CD that can only be read by the CD-RW that wrote the CD. A regular
Um...that CD-RW was a BIG thing to forget to mention. :) Try booting the
CD with a regular CDROM and I think you'll find that Mandrake will install
just fine.
The thing I was thinking about that RAM though was sometimes Mandrake
won't recognize RAM above 64MB. I was wondering maybe the install pr
that cdr/w could be your culprit. Do you have a vanilla cdrom drive you could
pop in and try booting from? CDR/W drives are treated weird by linux.
emulate SCSI in order to work.
Did you try reseating the RAM and cleaning the pins on the sticks?
Abe
>= Original Message From Paul <[EM
what I forgot to mention is that when I built the computer 3 months ago, a friend
of my, a linux guru unstalled a copy of Mandrake for me and it was working fine,
since then he got rid of it and I installed win2k and win98 on a clean "run..."
RAM is PC100, brand new, major brand... no problems wit
re-seating the ram is worth a shot but this problem shouldn't have anything to
do with the amount of ram in the system. I've got a machine with 256M that
installed 7.1 just fine. My other box has 384M and it also installed just
fine.
What kind of ram is it? pc-100? pc-133? How new/old is
It sounds like you've got yourself a hardware problem. While I can't be
100% certain what exactly it is. At first glance though I see you have a
HUGE amount of RAM. Just a thought though. Try taking one of those 128MB
chips out and then try the install again and see what happens. I'm not
sure I ca
: Sunday, September 03, 2000 2:56 PM
Subject: [newbie] it won't install :(
> hey all,
> just burned the CDs... boot with the first one, welcomed by a 'welcome'
> message, hit enter... it's scanning SCSI stuff, CD-ROM, then it's says
it's
> loading second st
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