I'm not sure if this is the correct list to ask DrakX questions? There is a
funny kind of package in cooker, but does not see much action.
I run some old "weird ass" hardware, mostly because I learn a lot from it. I
have a Compaq Prolinea 4/50s with PODP upgrade so it looks like a 83MHz
Pentium. It's currently running RedHat 6.1 very nicely. I would like to move
my machines to a common code base, and Mandrake looks like the best for me.
However, I cannot install 8.0 into that machine. I've tried cdrom, network,
hd images, but they all fail. Generally, it looks like everything goes OK
until "DrakX v1.510 built Wed Apr 18 08:14:11 2001" starts. It then "hangs",
and the logs don't say anything useful. The Alt-F1 screen just says "install
exited abnormally :-(" followed by shutdown messages and then "you may safely
reboot your system". I have some of questions:
If I've specified a text install, why is DrakX (graphic install?) even being
used? I would have thought it would use newt for i/o?
If I'm doing a cdrom install, why does it apparently fail after trying to
load af_packet.o? That's networking stuff, yes? This system has an ISA
ne2000, which cannot be detected correctly, when I netboot I specify
"io=0x300". Why doesn't it just realize there is no network, and continue
with the install from cdrom? The hd install seems to do the same things.
Network install seems to produce normal logs, until it shuts down, leaving
(as in all cases) DrakX in Alt-F2 display. I can do network installs from the
same server to other machines OK.
Maybe these problems are not that interesting to those of you playing with
the newest hardware (I have some newer machines, too). I would like to see
Linux (and Mandrake, if possible) universally available and applicable. Given
any reasonable machine, we should be able to install Linux and use it for
something (network router? print server? fishtank controller? whatever!).
Thanks for any help you can provide.
p.s. I looked at tinkering with DrakX, to try to provide more explicit error
messages for my situation, but it is a rather intimidating package of
software! Do I have to go back to RedHat? Run 2 distros? Yuck!
p.p.s. I also tried Mandrake 7.2, nogo. RedHat 6.1 network install is OK.
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Juhan Leemet
Logicognosis, Inc.
