Brian,
This is one heck of a hardware config...LOTS of goodies...you may just
want to wait for the final release of Mdk8.0 to come out this summer. I
have a feeling that it will be much better behaved by then.
Mark
Klar Brian D Contr MSG SICN wrote:
>
> I dont know, I wonder if something with lilo
> may have changed. I have seen other posts on
> Mandrakes mailing lists that people cant make
> a bootdisk and/or lilo wont install for them
> Do we all have some other problem....
>
> I don't know what other problem I could have.
> The system is a PII-450, 256M RAM, TV Card,
> 3Com 905b, SB Live, Supra Express 56k,
> Giga-byte Mobo, Matrox G450, Optical mouse
> (ps/2 or USB). I have never had a problem with
> installing Mandrake on hdc. hda = win 6.4G
> hdb = zip 100 hdc = linux 6.4G hdd = sony cdrw
>
> Recently added a Adaptec 2930 and (2) 4.3
> Western Digital "Enterprise" drives sda, sdb
>
> Actually Redhat would not install lilo correct
> but did make a usable boot disk.
> Mandrake on the other hand put files to the
> disk, but was not bootable at all.
>
> Running system diagnostics software on the pc
> -- all tests pass, all circuits are fine. I
> dont hold total faith in any sw prog for
> system diags, but...
>
> Brian
>
