RE: [newbie] 7.1 Install freezes at IDE config

2000-08-25 Thread Romanator
We need a patch for this. Hey tech. support, how about it? RB -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Cunningham Michael Sent: Friday, August 25, 2000 10:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] 7.1 Install freezes at IDE config

Re: [newbie] 7.1 Install freezes at IDE config

2000-08-25 Thread mystic
CTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 7:36 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] 7.1 Install freezes at IDE config > Hi, i'm also having the same problem. But I'm usinga Teac CD ROM that > Mandrake state that it is compatable. so i tried to install through

Re: [newbie] 7.1 Install freezes at IDE config

2000-08-25 Thread Cunningham Michael
That's one thing that I'm pretty sure isn't causing my problem: I've got 1.2G free, and did scandisk and defrag before starting. Sounds like enough people have a similar problem (and no clear solution) that this may be a 7.1 bug. Anyone from Mandrakesoft monitoring this board? >From: Carroll

Re: [[newbie] 7.1 Install freezes at IDE config]

2000-08-25 Thread Eric MC.D
Carroll Grigsby wrote: > > Mike: > I could be way off base with this, but I just had a thought: You don't > say what you did to prepare your HD. Have you got enough space on your > HD? 2 gb isn't a whole lot of disk space. (I can't believe I just said > that.) My Win98SE installation uses 900 mb

Re: [[newbie] 7.1 Install freezes at IDE config]

2000-08-24 Thread Carroll Grigsby
Mike: I could be way off base with this, but I just had a thought: You don't say what you did to prepare your HD. Have you got enough space on your HD? 2 gb isn't a whole lot of disk space. (I can't believe I just said that.) My Win98SE installation uses 900 mb and, except for one monster applicat

RE: [newbie] 7.1 Install freezes at IDE config

2000-08-24 Thread Chua Leap Kee
Hi its me again may i know what is the meaning of "insmod failed" when i tried to install linux from harddisk while selecting CD ROM.

RE: [Re: [newbie] 7.1 Install freezes at IDE config]

2000-08-24 Thread Romanator
] Subject: Re: [Re: [newbie] 7.1 Install freezes at IDE config] Could only be a flakey CD drive or even the Linux media. "Cunningham Michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jaguar, thanks for the suggestion. I noticed, though, that Mandrake says > that all Mitsumi CDROMS are support

Re: [newbie] 7.1 Install freezes at IDE config

2000-08-24 Thread Brian King
xactly the problem. > > -Original Message- > From: Romanator [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, August 25, 2000 7:12 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [newbie] 7.1 Install freezes at IDE config > > The same thing happened to me on an older Dell Dimension XPS

RE: [newbie] 7.1 Install freezes at IDE config

2000-08-24 Thread Chua Leap Kee
nator [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 25, 2000 7:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] 7.1 Install freezes at IDE config The same thing happened to me on an older Dell Dimension XPS 200s MMX I am using a CD player from Creative. I am wondering if I used the test-mode install. It

RE: [newbie] 7.1 Install freezes at IDE config

2000-08-24 Thread Romanator
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 12:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] 7.1 Install freezes at IDE config I used a Nec cdrom and had no problems. Even though Redhat 6.0 is not compatable with nec drives. Mandrake may be diffrent. Though I did install mandrake threw it

Re: [Re: [newbie] 7.1 Install freezes at IDE config]

2000-08-24 Thread Jaguar
Could only be a flakey CD drive or even the Linux media. "Cunningham Michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jaguar, thanks for the suggestion. I noticed, though, that Mandrake says > that all Mitsumi CDROMS are supported. What do you think is happening? > Thanks > Mike > >Jaguar wrote: > > > > >

Re: [[newbie] 7.1 Install freezes at IDE config]

2000-08-24 Thread Eric MC.D
Have the same pb !! And my manufacture is not yours. So, all manufactures are bad. Eric MC Jaguar wrote: > > Try swapping the CD-Rom out for on of another manufacture. > HTH > Jaguar > > "Cunningham Michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm trying to install Mandrake 7.1, but it consistently f

Re: [[newbie] 7.1 Install freezes at IDE config]

2000-08-23 Thread Jaguar
Try swapping the CD-Rom out for on of another manufacture. HTH Jaguar "Cunningham Michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to install Mandrake 7.1, but it consistently freezes at the > "configuring IDE" installation stage (I have to hit the 'reset' button). > I've tried booting from the