On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Alan Shoemaker wrote:
> Jas....I'm certainly not an expert on this, but if I ran into your
> problem I'd delete the 1872 mb and the 128 mb partitions and then make a
> 10-24 meg linux native partition with a mount point of /boot and then
> re-make those other two partitions you made previously. The mount point
> of the 1800 mb one should be /
>
> Alan
>
>
> "Jaswinder S. Ahluwalia" wrote:
> >
> > To whom it may concern,
> >
> > I tried posting the following message on the newbie list about a week ago
> > and it looks like no one knows of a possible solution so i though i'd try
> > posting to the expert list.
> >
> > I have been trying to install mandrake 6.1. I used fips to repartition my
> > 8 gb hard disk into a 6gb partition and a 2gb partition. I then used disk
> > druid in the install to delete the 2gb partition and create two more
> > partitions (1872 mb partition of type linux native and a 128 mb partition
> > of type swap).
> >
> > During the installation process it asks "would you like to create a boot
> > disk for your system?" I answer yes and it says "an error occurred during
> > the step "create bootdisk of the install." It asks me if i want to go to
> > the previous step, retry , or go to the install menu. When i hit alt-f3 it
> > says
> > running:/bin/insmod /bin/insmod /modules/loop.o
> > insmod failed
change to tty2, run
insmod modules/loop.o # what does it say?
sounds like you forgot to remake the boot disk and are useing an old one.
> > When i skip this step (due to frustration) i go on to the lilo
> > installation step. The above occurs again. I choose Master boot record as
> > the place to install lilo, i choose windows as the default and i hit ok. I
> > get the same error message as above "an error has occured during the step
> > "install lilo."" I hit alt-f3 and again it says,
> > running:/bin/insmod /bin/insmod /modules/loop.o
> > insmod failed
> >
> > any suggestions?
> >
> > Any help you could offer would greatly be appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jas
>
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