Hi, I've finally had time to experiment with the hardware. I borrowed and tried a vanilla Pentium 166 (no MMX) - still hangs. It seems to be the Adaptec 2940UW card that breaks the 9.0 (released) installer. With that card removed (I had to borrow an IDE CD-ROM) the 9.0 installation process completed. As I've mentioned, 7.2SNF was installed with the 2940 & SCSI CD-ROM without trouble, just as I have also had Win2k installed previously. Note: I've not yet tried to install MDK 8.2, I will try that tonight.
I also tried to move the 2940 to another PCI slot, restored/changed BIOS values etc, but no difference - as soon as the 2940 card is inserted, the 9.0 installer hangs - even while trying to install from the IDE CD-ROM. /Chris On Tuesday 24 September 2002 17:13, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > "Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hi, > > > > I've tried to install rc3 on a Pentium 200 MMX but the PC hangs > > when it comes to the second stage (the installer had installed > > the 2940 driver and the progress bar for loading the 2nd stage > > had completed) - the screen went blank and the PC & keyboard is > > dead. I've tried different kernels via expert install but the PC > > hangs then too (says "loading..." and then prompts "Ready." but > > the PC is totally dead). > > You may try adding the boot options "noauto" so that it > workarounds a possible USB driver problem. > > You may also try `images/alternatives/cdrom.img-2.2.19-BADZ5'.
