I'd make sure you format the partitions before advancing. I had so many
problems installing 7.1 I resorted to Expert mode, at which point the
problems vanished all worked as required.
On Wednesday, July 05, 2000 3:04 PM, Nikola Pizurica
[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
I have Mandrake 7 and
lsof /dev/cdrom will show who currently controls the cdrom (I believe it
stands for "list owner of" but might be wrong on that). For instance if
you get the result ttys1 mc blah blah it means MIdnight Commander is
looking at /mnt/cdrom
On Friday, June 30, 2000 6:07 PM, John Ward [SMTP:[EMAIL
I normally put tarballs in /usr/src/packages, but it's up to you where they
go. You have to make the distinction between binary source tarballs. With
a source tarball, leave it in /usr/src/linux, untgz using "tar xvfz
tarball name", cd to the directory created. Normally you then need to
type
I have installed Mandrake 7.0 on several occaisions, each time having odd
problems - network not configured, mouse not found, X config failures etc.
This time, my newly acquired GPL 7.1 has sprung a double-whammy :
(1) hung on X config in the installation - a reboot started the system ok,
When the display falls back, try CTRL-ALT-F2 to switch to a free console.
Sounds like something is playing with your permissions. To be on the safe
side, once you have the machine back up running, back up
/etc/Xfree86/XF86Config and your home dir - if it does go AWOL again you
can over-write
