Greetings,
I have a Dell Inspiron 3200 laptop, and I experimented some this
summer with LM 7.0, with my 4 gig harddrive equally partioned between
Windows 98 and LM 7.0. Finally I decided I was ready to make the move to
a Microsoft free computer (plus I had no room left on my hard drive), so I
figured i'd install 7.2. Only I'm having a devil of a time trying to get
it to install. My computer boots from my Cd-Rom, and I get the opening
mandrake screen. no matter what mode I choose for install (text, expert,
etc.), the install always hangs in the same place. I get a window saying
intializing Cd-rom, then Loading second stage ram disc. Then in the
bottom left hand corner appears "in second stage install". Suddenly the
Cd stops spinning and nothing happens, I've left it like that overnight
before.
I've tried everything I could think of, booting from a floppy,
cleaning my cd drive. I even have a friend with the same laptop so i
borrowed his drive and the same thing happened. The burn seems to be
fine, I at least got past "second stage install" in testing it on my
friends desktop. I've had no other problems with my cd drive. It's a
Toshiba CD-ROM XM-1702BC that came with my laptop.
I was just curious if anyone else had this problem, or could give
some tips for a solution.
Thanks,
Brad
