Have you tried hitting CTRL-ALT-F1 to F4. When I installed 8.1, I figured out that they display messages from the install process and one of them gives you a prompt.
/curtis ><> On Wed, 2001-10-03 at 14:19, J. C. Woods wrote: > Mandrake staff, > > First off let me congratulate you on a very nice release (8.1). I have > loaded it on one of my older boxes, and it works very nicely. My > question is about installing it on a newer box. This machine is a Tyan > M/B (S2390B) with KT133 (VIA 686B Southbridge), Athlon 1.33GHZ, 768M > PC-133 RAM, NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 Model 64 Pro, and, I must add, it is a > piece of shit. This install is on a dual boot disk with W2K Pro Server > residing on the first partition. MDK starts on hda5. I am sure Mandrake > 8.1 is not at fault. It is, no doubt, the buggy hardware. But maybe, > just maybe, you might have some insight or work around. I simply love > Mandrake, and I hope I can get it installed... > > The type of install that takes me the furthest into the process is an > expert install, creating custom mount points (partitions are /, /boot, > /usr/, swap, /var, and /home), and using the reiserfs f/s. Using this > method, I can get all the way to the process in which the packages are > actually being copied from CD to harddrive. The install process will > copy files for a length of time. Performing multiple installs, this > copying can varies from 2 mins of copy activity to 20 mins of copy > activity. And then it just stops on some package, no particular package > (varies each install session), no errors msgs, and it is stopped until I > do a hard reboot. Any ideas as to what in the hell is going on between > software and hardware? > > Thanks, >
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