On Tue, 2002-07-30 at 12:08, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > Adam Williamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > [...] > > > BTW, Guillaume, this is the exact same thing that happens with my failed > > network installs. As I mentioned, the sole common factor between the two > > PCs on which it fails for me is using the same Sony USB floppy drive. > > hmm.. the problem being that in "network.img" I don't have the > USB drivers :-). > > This could be caused by the fact that you don't have a regular > floppy drive I suppose? But again, I don't access floppy things > during the setup of the network! :-).
Yes, I think the floppy drive could be a red herring. The only reason I mention it is that it's the ONLY common feature between the two machines i've had it crash on. I don't have an easy way to test with a standard floppy drive, sorry :( > We don't have a Sony USB floppy but a seamingly Teac FD-05PUB USB > floppy, with network.img there is no noticeable difference, with > usb.img the program sees it with no problem.. but I didn't > unconnect the regular floppy of my test machine. Please confirm > whether you have one or not. No regular floppy drive, I don't see them as necessary any more and don't like to clutter up my systems with them :). If you're wondering why in that case i'm installing from floppy in the first case, for two reasons: At the time I installed Cooker on my desktop I didn't have any 700MB CDs to write iso's to, so I did a floppy install instead. Trying to do an FTP install (though I tried with HTTP and also tried NFS even though I have no NFS source just to test if they all produced the crash - they all did) got this error; a hard disk install after downloading Cooker to a Windows partition worked OK. With my laptop, I can't get Mandrake to install with Sony's PCMCIA CD drive; it will boot off it just fine but won't see it after that, so when it gets to package selection it can't read the CD and says 'no hdlists found!' (Yes, i've tried the boot parameters listed in various places to get the CD drive recognised, but they don't seem to work. Hmm - actually, I guess maybe switching to a virtual console and modprobing the relevant PCMCIA stuff would help, but I didn't think of this at the time. May investigate further, but it'd be nice if DrakX did PCMCIA install media automagically.) Trying all the various forms of network installation gives the crash. A hard disk installation from the floppy would be harder since I don't have a Windows partition big enough to contain Mandrake, so I gave up and installed SuSE instead =). Oh, yes, to be noted - though I mentioned it before - this also happens with 8.2's disks. Can the other person having the problem test with those as well, to confirm? -- adamw
