Re: [newbie] Installation problems with 9.0

2002-10-11 Thread Jason Drushel
You were right the first time, it didn't help. :-p I downloaded 8.2 and went to install it, but half of the installation menu came up (yes, half) before giving me a boot failed message. May be the blanks I'm using, because the CD reads fine in my desktop systems. But still no luck for me in t

Re: [newbie] Installation problems with 9.0

2002-10-11 Thread Todd Flinders
This probably won't help, but check in the laptop's BIOS and make sure that Plug & Pray OS is turned off (if applicable). It sounds like it's having difficulty detecting your hardware. Turning this off should help. On Friday 11 October 2002 02:07 pm, Jason Drushel wrote: > Hi guys, new to the

Re: [newbie] Installation problems with 9.0

2002-10-11 Thread Jason Drushel
Using the "linux expert noauto" command at the prompt I'm at about 66% through file copying, which is further than I've ever gotten into the installation. I'm sure now that I've said something about it it'll crap out on me though. If so, I'll give 8.x a try, thanks. With a low ram setup all

Re: [newbie] Installation problems with 9.0

2002-10-11 Thread mike
Jason Drushel wrote: > > Win98 runs just fine on it. > > You're the third person to suggest RAM as the problem, so I'm more inclined > to believe it now. And I can see that causing the various freezes during > installation. But the error messages? How would that account for the > securitypolic

Re: [newbie] Installation problems with 9.0

2002-10-11 Thread Jason Drushel
Win98 runs just fine on it. You're the third person to suggest RAM as the problem, so I'm more inclined to believe it now. And I can see that causing the various freezes during installation. But the error messages? How would that account for the securitypolicy and hard drive detection errors

Re: [newbie] Installation problems with 9.0

2002-10-11 Thread Anthony Hopkin
Hi Jason, Welcome - The bad news is that 32 MB is probably too little for what you have in mind using Mdk 9. I had an old Dell with 64 MB - I eventually had to add 128 MB to make a fist of the hardware. Then it went along fine - on mdk 8.2 and now 9.0. (it chokes on Windows 98, NT and XP) .

Re: [newbie] Installation problems with 9.0

2002-10-11 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 11 October 2002 2:07 pm, Jason Drushel did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: > First of all, system specs. It's a Dell Inspiron 3200, P2-233 with 32mb > RAM, 4gb HD, Neologic or somesuch video card. > Any suggestions? either get som