Re: [newbie] Installation problem - ?disc not being read

2005-02-09 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
Well - I have an install - did not get GUI up so obviously have a couple of things to sort out. LILO worked great - so thank you to those who helped. I'll reboot to Mdk and see what I can work out. Printer is perfect! Thanks Rosemary Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Monday 07 February 2005 23:25, you

Re: [newbie] Installation problem - ?disc not being read

2005-02-07 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Monday 07 February 2005 04:40, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Kaj Haulrich wrote: happens. I rebooted with disc in situ and get the window with the two options press F1' and enter to install Looked at F1 and then pressed enter. It appeared to start installing but then the monitor went

Re: [newbie] Installation problem - ?disc not being read

2005-02-07 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Monday 07 February 2005 23:25, you wrote: Sometimes it refuses to boot from CD1, in that case try CD2, it'll prompt you to change disks later on. BTW two things : 1. please don't post in html. Most people here filter html-messages out before they get read. 2. please remove your

Re: [newbie] installation problem

2005-01-31 Thread Elwyn
On Sunday 23 Jan 2005 16:35, Cyber Killer wrote: I see that my post got lost in the discussion, so here goes again... I got the 10.1 official download dvd. Everything burned OK. I boot the comp, I see the splash screen, I press F2, type expert, [enter]. The kernel loads And that's all

Re: [newbie] installation problem

2005-01-23 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 23 Jan 2005 16:35, Cyber Killer wrote: Seagate Barracuda 7200 120 GB That's a SATA disk, I think? You might like to search the archives for booting from SATA disks Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have

Re: [newbie] installation problem

2005-01-23 Thread Cyber Killer
Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 23 Jan 2005 16:35, Cyber Killer wrote: Seagate Barracuda 7200 120 GB That's a SATA disk, I think? You might like to search the archives for booting from SATA disks no, it's not SATA, it's a standard ATA133 hdd -- Cyber

Re: [newbie] installation problem

2005-01-23 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 23 Jan 2005 17:01, Cyber Killer wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 23 Jan 2005 16:35, Cyber Killer wrote: Seagate Barracuda 7200 120 GB That's a SATA disk, I think? You might like

Re: [newbie] installation problem

2005-01-23 Thread Elwyn
On Sunday 23 Jan 2005 16:35, Cyber Killer wrote: Here is a list of my hardware: cpu: P4 1700 ram: 256 MB RAMBUS gfx: Radeon 7200 64 MB snd: SB Live! Player 1024 hdd: Seagate Barracuda 7200 120 GB dvd: LG GDR-8162B cdrw: LG GCE-8524B lan: Realtek RTL8139 + some stuff connected to USB, a

Re: [newbie] installation problem

2005-01-23 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 23 Jan 2005 17:30, Elwyn wrote: On Sunday 23 Jan 2005 16:35, Cyber Killer wrote: Here is a list of my hardware: Have you tried having unplugged your extra USB things incase there is a problem there?? That's a good point. Setting them

Re: [newbie] installation problem

2005-01-23 Thread Elwyn
On Sunday 23 Jan 2005 16:35, Cyber Killer wrote: + some stuff connected to USB, a scanner, a printer,... http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7320page=3 This chap has written a review on Mandrake 10 and has stated he's had problems with the Hotplug feature... Usb Devices?? Cheers, Elwyn

Re: [newbie] Installation problem: unable to resolve 'LABEL=/'

2004-10-17 Thread Randall D. Hobbs
On Saturday 16 October 2004 10:08 am, Boyi Zeng wrote: Hello, Yesterday I tried to install mandrake linux 10.1 to my notebook. The installation process is smooth. But I got problem at the startup after installation. The error message is like that: checking root partition: fsck.ext3:

Re: [newbie] Installation problem: unable to resolve 'LABEL=/'

2004-10-17 Thread Boyi Zeng
Hello, Thanks for your reply. I reinstalled mandrake, and choose LILO as the boot loader, and then it worked. Since I installed Linux from hard disk. there seems to be no method for me to edit the menu.lst or the fstab. Anyway, the problem is solved. Thank you. On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 07:40:32

Re: [newbie] Installation Problem

2004-03-19 Thread Marcin Michalak
I had the same error with a 32b version. Do you install from CD? If so the cd you use might be bad. I tried to do network install and it worked (well, I had a different error and I still haven't installed the os, but that's different story). If installing from net is not good for you for

RE: [newbie] Installation Problem

2004-03-19 Thread Ayares, Mark (Mark)
ubject: Re: [newbie] Installation Problem I had the same error with a 32b version. Do you install from CD? If so the cd you use might be bad. I tried to do network install and it worked (well, I had a different error and I still haven't installed the os, but that's different story). If

Re: [newbie] Installation Problem

2004-03-19 Thread Steve Turner
Hardware is all new. - Original Message - From: Ayares, Mark (Mark) To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 8:32 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] Installation Problem Depending on how old the hardware is, I have had success with older machine

Re: [newbie] Installation Problem

2004-03-19 Thread et
On Friday 19 March 2004 10:12 am, Steve Turner wrote: I got the following error while trying to install the 64 bit version: FATAL ERROR IN STAGE1 I/O Error It says it can't recover and I should reboot? Any help would be great. I agree about hitting 'f1', if you get that far, but if

Re: [newbie] Installation Problem

2004-03-19 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2004-03-20 at 10:05, et wrote: On Friday 19 March 2004 10:12 am, Steve Turner wrote: I got the following error while trying to install the 64 bit version: FATAL ERROR IN STAGE1 I/O Error It says it can't recover and I should reboot? Any help would be great. I agree about

Re: [newbie] Installation problem.

2003-09-15 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dennis Myers wrote: On Friday 05 September 2003 01:24 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Tony, I used that link. Many packages gave me the message: The signature of the package xxx is not correct No GPG signature package Do you want to install it anyway? Is there a

Re: [newbie] Installation problem.

2003-09-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/urpmiweb.php . Tony. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 8:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Installation problem. Hi, I went and installed the LM9.0 back. It worked fine unlike

Re: [newbie] Installation problem.

2003-09-05 Thread Dennis Myers
On Friday 05 September 2003 01:24 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Tony, I used that link. Many packages gave me the message: The signature of the package xxx is not correct No GPG signature package Do you want to install it anyway? Is there a way to fix this?

Re: [newbie] Installation problem.

2003-09-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Any hints anybody? I want LM9.1 to work on my machine, like win2k does and LM9.0 did. During installation of LM9.1, the graphics card was recognized correctly (RIVA TNT2 with 32Megs) but the Futura monitor was not. Many alternate monitors from the generic monitor list and many combinations of

Re: [newbie] Installation problem.

2003-09-03 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Any hints anybody? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shame, the win2k is working and the LM9.1 on the same machine is not. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, During installation of LM9.1, the graphics card was recognized correctly (RIVA TNT2 with 32Megs) but the Futura monitor was not. Many alternate

Re: [newbie] Installation problem.

2003-09-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Shame, the win2k is working and the LM9.1 on the same machine is not. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, During installation of LM9.1, the graphics card was recognized correctly (RIVA TNT2 with 32Megs) but the Futura monitor was not. Many alternate monitors from the generic monitor list and many

RE: [newbie] Installation problem

2001-12-06 Thread Myers, Dennis R NWO
Title: RE: [newbie] Installation problem -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Frans Ketelaars Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 1:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Installation problem On Mon, 3 Dec 2001 16:32:24 +0100

Re: [newbie] Installation problem

2001-12-05 Thread Joseph Demers
On Tuesday 04 December 2001 02:07 pm, you wrote: On Mon, 3 Dec 2001 16:32:24 +0100 Helle Espen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have Dell inspiron 3800. Have had Linux mandrake 7.? (1?) on it before without any problem. Tried now to install LM 8.1, and I am not able to do it. It hangs

Re: [newbie] Installation problem

2001-12-04 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On Mon, 3 Dec 2001 16:32:24 +0100 Helle Espen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have Dell inspiron 3800. Have had Linux mandrake 7.? (1?) on it before without any problem. Tried now to install LM 8.1, and I am not able to do it. It hangs when it tries to use the CDROM (But it is able to use it

Re: [newbie] Installation problem: no such device

2001-10-30 Thread Robin Turner
civileme wrote: On Sunday 28 October 2001 04:59, Robin Turner wrote: I'm reinstalling Mandrake 8.0 and get the following problem while assigning partitions: Mount failed No such device This is happens two partitions: /dev/hda1 (vfat) and /dev/hda2 (reiserfs). It also

RE: [newbie] Installation Problem

2001-04-10 Thread Charles A Edwards
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of T.P. Smith Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 7:09 AM To: Linux Mandrake Help Subject: [newbie] Installation Problem I recently purchased a new PC (Athlon 1GHz on ASUS A7V133, WD 30Gb ATA100 HDD) and wish to

Re: [newbie] Installation problem

2000-11-03 Thread Clayton Hoskinson
I have a Celeron 566, HD is 20 megs with 2Meg drive set up for windows. Can anyone help me? Sincerely, Jim You mean a 20Gig HD and a 2Gig partition for windoze, don't you?? Prior to your attempt to install LM did the drive work under windoze? Is you MB running an ATA-66? LM doesn't

RE: [newbie] Installation problem

2000-11-03 Thread Kelly, Christopher
Let me get this straight. You are running the normal install and it freezes at the hard drive detection phase? Do you get any error messages or does it just lock up? -Original Message- From: Jim Williams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 03, 2000 6:48 AM To: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Installation problem

2000-11-03 Thread Jim Williams
Dear Chris and Clayton The installation freezes and I'm using a 20Gig Seagate Drive. Thanks Jim Williams

RE: [newbie] Installation problem

2000-11-03 Thread Luis Mercadillo
PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Installation problem Dear Chris and Clayton The installation freezes and I'm using a 20Gig Seagate Drive. Thanks Jim Williams

Re: [newbie] Installation problem

2000-10-26 Thread abe
the ATA100 channel on the A7V is reported in windows as a SCSI device. It has to load its own BIOS at boot time in order to function and I do not know if the linux kernel can successfully talk with an ATA100 BIOS yet. My won't boot if I move HD1 to the ATA100 controller which is a bummer

Re: [newbie] Installation Problem

2000-10-03 Thread Mark Weaver
This may be a mute point, since it's been a fairly well established fact that Linux and Western Digital drives don't like one another, but did you boot the CD to start the install, or did you start from a boot floppy? I've willing to bet though that what you're experiencing is that when Linux

Re: [newbie] Installation Problem

2000-10-03 Thread Larry Marshall
This may be a mute point, since it's been a fairly well established fact that Linux and Western Digital drives don't like one another, but did you boot the CD to start the install, or did you start from a boot floppy? Ssshhdon't tell my WD153 that Linux doesn't like it. So far

Re: [newbie] Installation Problem

2000-10-03 Thread Adam
a problem with Memory(RAM), this is just my 2 cents to try to help out. Adam - Original Message - From: "Mark Weaver" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 7:45 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Installation Problem This may be a mute point, since

Re: [newbie] Installation Problem

2000-10-03 Thread Mark Weaver
October 03, 2000 7:45 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Installation Problem This may be a mute point, since it's been a fairly well established fact that Linux and Western Digital drives don't like one another, but did you boot the CD to start the install, or did you start from a boot floppy? I'

Re: [newbie] Installation Problem

2000-10-03 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Mark Weaver wrote: This may be a mute point, since it's been a fairly well established fact that Linux and Western Digital drives don't like one another, but did you boot the CD to start the install, or did you start from a boot floppy? I've willing to bet though that what you're

Re: [newbie] Installation Problem

2000-10-03 Thread ehines
On Tue, 03 Oct 2000, Mark Weaver wrote: This may be a mute point, since it's been a fairly well established fact that Linux and Western Digital drives don't like one another, ??Have I just been lucky? In the past 2 years I've installed 6 different distros on 3 different systems with WD

Re: [newbie] Installation Problem: No valid device for filesystems?

2000-09-16 Thread Goldenpi
Ultra ATA 100 Controller for Windows-there is a possible problem. You know the problem with winmodems, that label 'for windows' doesn't look good. Still, I never heard of a wincontroler before. That scsi-ide thing is probably just a bad setup, and shouldn't effect linux is any way. -

Re: [newbie] Installation Problem: No valid device for filesystems?

2000-09-16 Thread Dan LaBine
similarities are even more pronounced with the ATA100 cards. That's most likely where your problem lies. - Original Message - From: "Goldenpi" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2000 7:29 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Installation Problem: No va

RE: [newbie] Installation problem: flashing login screen

2000-06-21 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Xconfigurator to set up your video card. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] |Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2000 1:20 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: RE: [newbie] Installation problem: flashing login screen | | | Not exactly sure I know what you mean

Re: [newbie] Installation problem with 7.0

2000-06-14 Thread Charles A Edwards
hiber" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 8:26 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] Installation problem with 7.0 The video card is a Trident 9685 PCI with a voodoo 2 accelerater. How do I boot into text mode? -Original Message- From: Charles A Edwards [mai

Re: [newbie] Installation problem with 7.0

2000-06-13 Thread Mark Bevivino
What happens if you don't choose anything and let it do it's thing? - Original Message - From: "Phiber" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 7:24 PM Subject: [newbie] Installation problem with 7.0 I am trying to install Mandrake 7.0 on a 200 with 32

Re: [newbie] Installation problem with 7.0

2000-06-13 Thread Charles A Edwards
What is your video card/device. It sounds to me as though it can not handle the graph. install so you will need to run the install in text mode. Charles - Original Message - From: "Phiber" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 7:24 PM Subject: [newbie]

RE: [newbie] Installation problem with 7.0

2000-06-13 Thread Phiber
The video card is a Trident 9685 PCI with a voodoo 2 accelerater. How do I boot into text mode? -Original Message- From: Charles A Edwards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 2:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Installation problem with 7.0 What

Re: [newbie] Installation Problem

2000-06-05 Thread frank
David Brown wrote: I'm installing Linux Mandrake 7.0 on a clean hard drive auto allocated for linux. During the install, I choose what packages to install. If I choose to install the KDE GUI, when the system reboots I get an error, KDM: error in loading shared libraries: libz.so.1:

Re: [newbie] Installation Problem

2000-06-05 Thread Ed Tharp
frank wrote: David Brown wrote: I'm installing Linux Mandrake 7.0 on a clean hard drive auto allocated for linux. During the install, I choose what packages to install. If I choose to install the KDE GUI, when the system reboots I get an error, KDM: error in loading shared

RE: [newbie] Installation Problem

2000-04-11 Thread Muzza
Umm, sounds like a faulty RAM chip or two. On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Huelskamp, VT wrote: I take it that no one has any idea?? -Original Message- From: Huelskamp, VT Sent: Monday, April 10, 2000 3:27 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]@inter2' Subject: [newbie] Installation Problem

RE: [newbie] Installation Problem

2000-04-11 Thread tengelbr
Hello. What is the Mainboard and Chipset? If its a 810-chipset (integrated graphics) -- put a handle on it and throw it away. :(( What is the name of the graphics adapter? Bye, Drosti -Original Message- From: Huelskamp, VT Sent: Monday, April 10, 2000 3:27 PM To: '[EMAIL

RE: [newbie] Installation Problem

2000-04-11 Thread Oliver Stieber
not installing things through the installer, you can always install them later. -Original Message- From: Huelskamp, VT [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 11 April 2000 12:08 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]@inter2' Subject: RE: [newbie] Installation Problem Sensitivity: Personal I take it that no one

RE: [newbie] Installation Problem

2000-04-11 Thread Muzza
Umm, sounds like a faulty RAM chip or two. On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Huelskamp, VT wrote: I take it that no one has any idea?? -Original Message- From: Huelskamp, VT Sent: Monday, April 10, 2000 3:27 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]@inter2' Subject: [newbie] Installation Problem

RE: [newbie] Installation Problem

2000-04-11 Thread BryanMoorehead
PROTECTED] To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]@inter2'" [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Bryan Moorehead/Link/Allied Holdings) Subject: RE: [newbie] Installation Problem I take it that no one has any idea?? -Original Message- From: Huelskamp, VT Sent: Monday, April 10, 2000 3:27 PM To: '[EMA

Re: [RE: [newbie] Installation Problem]

2000-04-11 Thread Jaguar
MDK 7.0 has known install bugs...try using 7.02 HTH Jaguar "Huelskamp, VT" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I take it that no one has any idea?? -Original Message- From: Huelskamp, VT Sent: Monday, April 10, 2000 3:27 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]@inter2' Subject: [newbie] Installation

Re: [newbie] Installation Problem

2000-04-11 Thread nodyak0
PROTECTED]] Sent: 11 April 2000 12:08 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]@inter2' Subject: RE: [newbie] Installation Problem Sensitivity: Personal I take it that no one has any idea?? -Original Message- From: Huelskamp, VT Sent: Monday, April 10, 2000 3:27 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [newbie] Installation Problem

2000-04-11 Thread Huelskamp, VT
I take it that no one has any idea?? -Original Message- From: Huelskamp, VT Sent: Monday, April 10, 2000 3:27 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]@inter2' Subject: [newbie] Installation Problem Sensitivity: Personal While installing 7.0 on a Dell Dimension, 400mhz Celeron, after you select the

Re: [newbie] installation problem: no enough disk space

1999-07-16 Thread Axalon
On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Jackal wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 i have amd k6/2 450 Mhz no problem so far...humming along just fine On 16-Jul-99 J Mann wrote: -- From: Chun-wah Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie]

Re: [newbie] installation problem: no enough disk space

1999-07-15 Thread chun-wah liu
hi everybody, thank you so much for your advice. I have solved my problem by putting all empty space in my harddisk into a dos partitition. before this I had about 200MB free space at the beginning of my extended partition. I suspect the installation problem tried to mount the / path into this

Re: [newbie] installation problem: no enough disk space

1999-07-15 Thread J Mann
-- From: Chun-wah Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] installation problem: no enough disk space Date: Wednesday, July 14, 1999 1:48 PM hi I have installed mandrake 6.0 in my AMD6-2 300 PC with 64MB RAM and 4.3G hard drive. I have tried making 1004MB

Re: [newbie] installation problem: no enough disk space

1999-07-14 Thread Patrick Putteman
Seems you ran out of space on your root partition. Don't forget, everything you don't put in a separate partition goes in your / Ok, I'll try to make this a step by step. First of all, don't use disk druid to partition your disk, it is a question of taste, but once you get used to fdisk,

Re: [newbie] installation problem: no enough disk space

1999-07-14 Thread Mike Ortiz
Hello, What this means is that your partition is too small for the installation you have chosen. When you say it "installs" the remaining packages, it really isn't adding these packages to what you have already installed. I'm not sure what it does, but it may overwrite other data, or just

Re: [newbie] installation problem: no enough disk space

1999-07-14 Thread Axalon
Looks like you selected "install all" from a custom install if so increase / to about 2gig On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Chun-wah Liu wrote: hi I have installed mandrake 6.0 in my AMD6-2 300 PC with 64MB RAM and 4.3G hard drive. I have tried making 1004MB linux ext2 partition (for path / ) and

Re: [newbie] Installation problem - Help with CD-ROM

1999-02-10 Thread Sam Bonham
KDE/Mandrake Fresh Documentation manual http://www.linuxmandrake.com/userguide/ Paul A. Bernicchi wrote: Good afternoon. I just purchased Mandrake 5.2 and cannot install it... I am booting from CD-ROM, and it carries me through the installation process until it asks for the type of