Re: [newbie] what is a compressed image?

2001-05-29 Thread David Savolainen
Eric, H... No LM version has paused at that stage longer then half a minute or so at that stage for me, usually just a few seconds. I don't know why it would lock up at that stage. What is your hardware configuration? This may well be beyond my expertise, but hopefully someone else will

Re: [newbie] what is a compressed image?

2001-05-28 Thread Eric Lauritzen
A ramdisk is sort of like a virtual hard drive that the installer creates in memory. It creates this so there is a mountable drive for use during the install process. I believe it boots from this, but I am not sure. Someone more expert would know better then me. Sometimes it takes a few

[newbie] what is a compressed image?

2001-05-27 Thread lauritzen
A compressed image or ramdisk or something seems to be causing my computer to lock up during install. I'm trying to set it up to dual boot with Windows ME. It always locks up shortly after: Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 hda5 RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 Uncompressing