Todd, Excellent - so far so good. I booted from CD2 and downloaded and ran install with 'patch noauto' from 8.2. We are over half way through install now!
Cheers, Andy On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 19:02, Todd Lyons wrote: > Andy Weller wrote on Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 12:06:06PM +0100 : > > I have tried everything with this now. All sorts of BIOS settings in > my > > Award Plug and Play BIOS, all combinations of 'expert noauto' etc etc > > for boot and the patch.pl that I used for 8.2 - but nothing! Not too > > sure why this worked for 8.2, but not 9.0!?!? What can I do to get > past > > this "Enabling PCMCIA extension cards..." business? Is there a patch > out > > there that will completely disable this feature - besides, I don't > have > > any PCMCIA cards anyhow...! Hmmmmmmmmm? > > Boot CD2. It does things differently and does not try to initialize the > pcmcia during the install. A message by Guillaume Cottenceau was posted > to Cooker just last Thursday or Friday that explained exactly what it is > that is different about it. If you feel like reading it, it can be > found in the mail archives. Go to the mandrakelinux.com home website > and find the web archives and look through there. There are two as I > recall, and one of them is searchable. > > Blue skies... Todd
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