Hi,
after having started one of the longest running OT thread of this list
(by numbers of postings) I'd like to turn to a not so important but
more OnTopic issue - my unability to install 9.1Beta2.
Downloaded both ISOs, checked the md5sums, burned the CDs, again
checked the md5sums, done.
Booted, pressed F1 and at the prompt chose 'expert'.
Installer went without fault (except no way to get my mouse wheel
going) to the package selection. To get to the Individual Package
Selection I had to unmark and mark again the radio button for this
feature.
Bad surprise: As in Beta1 the blue field on the screen was not large
enough to show the buttons to commence after selection. I tried
several times to get to the button by pressing TAB. All I got was a
freeze where the reset button was the only way out. BTW: the popup to
show dependencies during selection was not showing but the text was
(unreadable) squashed somewhere at the top of the blue field.
Next attempt I skipped the individual package selection to get at
least something installed. I chose Office Workstation, Internet
Client, Development, Graphical Workstation (unmarking Gnome because I
wanted only KDE). Installation started and - in between changed to
disc #2 - went to the end without error.
Then it started post-installation configuration and asked for Disc #1.
I inserted it, waited a moment to let the disc be read in then hit OK.
The installer searched the disc, ejected it and asked for Disc #1. I
did that several times, even changing to Disc 2 in case it really
meant #2 instead of #1. No go. I had to hit Cancel. Then I got the
listing of devices and realized there was no network installed. I
clicked on that and did the network configuration. That was ok.
Then I hit the bar with the X configuration. It asked for my monitor
(1280x1024 generic flatscreen) and claimed I had a GeForce2 card. I
changed that to Generic GeForce4 and marked XFree 4.x.x. The installer
showed an error and claimed that some files in /mnt/usr/... were
missing. Only part of this message were on the blue square in the
middle of the screen.
I commenced without X and that was it. No option to create a bootdisk.
I forgot: there was an option to install LILO but I passed it because
it did not give me the option to have it on a bootdisk.
That's all. No way. I tried text install but there I did not get the
expert option. everything else (asking but not accepting CD1, no
bootdisk) was like in graphic install.
I have been at it now for 2 hours, no way to get it installed. I mean,
it is installed but I can't get to it because I don't get the option
to start via LILO on a bootdisk and I don't get the option to create
a bootdisk and I don't want LILO to be in the MBR, thus blocking me
out of my working installation of Mandrake 9.0. I tried the often used
approach of putting LILO in the root partition of 9.1Beta2 and put the
proper entry into my main lilo.conf in MDK 9.0 but lilo of 9.0 did not
accept the entry.
Maybe Beta versions are not for me...
wobo
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