Hello all,
I've been trying, without success, to get mandrake 7.0 installed on my laptop.
I have tried the PCMCIA install (after fixing up the pcmcia.img to load
8390.o properly) - this seems to work, it downloads the second stage
install package, and then the install just dies, and the PC is reset after
'sending KILL, sending TERM' etc.
I have tried a HD install (with the standard hd.img) - If I let it go with
DrakX, I get the following:
Boots with no errors from boot disk.
Starts the installer (the text installer - first stage) which lets me
choose where mandrake RPMs, etc are.
After this, I get 'second stage install ...'
then the following appears on my screen
'X Free86 3.3.5 ...'
then I get a X transport error, cannot connect to display, so DrakX does
not come up ...
then the PC is reset after 'sending KILL, sending TERM' etc.
If I type 'linux text' at the LILO prompt, I get the following:
Boots with no errors from boot disk.
Starts the installer (the text installer - first stage) which lets me
choose where mandrake RPMs, etc are.
After this, I get 'second stage install ...'
I then get a language selection, I choose US English, my screen is then
garbled with errors regarding change of locale ...
I can then choose from Recommended, Customised or Expert installation methods.
If I choose Recommended, I can't get past the PCMCIA driver loading. (No
PCMCIA modules found ...)
If I choose Customised or Expert and skip PCMCIA, I get the package
selection screen where I can select 'Network Workstation, KDE Workstation,
GNOME ...' etc.
After pressing OK on this screen, the install dies and then the PC is reset
after 'sending KILL, sending TERM' etc.
I'm not sure what it could be.
Hardware:
Acer TravelMate 505T
Celeron 400
32MB of RAM
5 Gig HD
NeoMagic Video Card 2MB
SVGA LCD Screen
CDROM/Floppy/PCMCIA (i83265) builtin.
I have installed SuSE, Redhat, Turbolinux, Slackware and Debian without any
problems.
I have installed SuSE with the YAST2 graphical installation, and Redhat
with it's graphical installation.
Please Advise,
Omar Kilani
(It is late ... :-)
