System is a 200 Mhz, 4 GB HDD, 96 RAM, ISA Sound Card, Realtec NIC, etc...nothing really exotic or unusual here.
Tried rebooting a couple more times and got the errors I mentioned before. Tried RTFM that I got with an older mandrake distro and it would seem that it stalled around the configuring bootloader or x-configuration. I think I might just try reinstalling again, but if this is still going to be coming up. The time it takes too reinstall is a big pain in the ass too. Cameron BTW - Thanks for th insight and help people have offered. I will keep you posted. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2003 8:39 AM Subject: Re: (clug-talk) Penguins Can Be A P.I.T.A. > On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 21:56, Cameron Nikitiuk wrote: > > DAMN!!! > > > > As some of you may recall, I tried installing drake on my fiances machine, > > but was having troubles with the hard drive. Well...after testing a few > > drives and cables in a couple different machines, we finally found one that > > worked. So all is good...or so we thought! > > > > We thought what the heck...lets get naked and install mandrake. We got to > > the point where it looked like it was configuring the booloader or x and the > > mouse just froze right up. I don't know if I was just being impaitent or > > what but I rebooted that beast. Was I wrong in doing so and have to > > reinstall everything again or should it have enough to reboot and start OK? > > What is the system again? A Pentium? It could be that Mandrake doesn't like the > older hardware. You may want to try a distro with less hardware requirements. > (That's pretty much any other save Knoppix which doesn't like some older hardware). > >
