Good morning list,
I am sorely vexed by something and i am hoping that someone would endulge and engage
me in some discussion about the matter. the matter is this;
Everytime I've attempted to load Mandrake >= 8.0 on my home system i can't make a boot
floppy cause it can't "see" the floppy drive, X won't run - at all, and well...the
system just isn't very usable like that. O, and i forgot to mention that when it does
manage to start the system after install, in console mode of course because it usually
comes up with a kernel panic error - something about not being able to find the "/"
(root) partition its not very usefull to me in console mode only.
Here's brief list of the hardware that you would find in my case.
motherboard: unknown
CPU chip: AMDK6 233Mhz
SDRAM: 160MB
Audio card: Ensonic chipset
Video card: generic Trident 9660
HDD's (two) Maxtor DiamondMax drives
hda: 12.5GB 7200rpm
hdc: 3.5GB 7200rpm
CDROM/CD-RW: Sony
Monitor: Phillips T107 Flatscreen
In the past i've successfully installed Mandrake 8.0 >= on many other system much
older than my own. a few P1's here and there that are small machines by comparison.
even one P1-133 with TWO Western Digital drives in it. That one is presently being
used as an FTP/MySQL/Apache/SMTP server.
what in the world could there be about my machine that Mandrake just doesn't like? At
present i'm running Mandrake 7.2. It's a Mandrake only machine and the filesystem is
ReiserFS, although i don't think that has any bearing at all on the problem i've
outlined here.
please, any and all suggestions/flames welcome and appreciated.
Mark
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