Rich, Mandrake is Red Hat 5.2. Shut down & restart your computer. on its
boot up hit the del key. this will allow you to get into the bios in the
advance section you will find the boot sequence. It should be listed as A:,
C:, by using page up or page down the selection should change to cdrom
first, after this is done hit esc, f10, y, and the computer should reboot.
" don't forget to change it back after you finish the install"
With the cd in the program should come up, follow the prompts choose
upgrade, when you get to server, workstation, custom choose either of the
first two, according to your use. if you get to the screen that says skip
disk choose that, the following screen may say that all will be lost, (back
up all files that you want to keep before you start) choose yes and you
will get an automatic install, if you have a separate HD for linux you may
want to make a boot disk, I chose this method and my two HDs don't see each
other. after the install when you reboot you must change the boot sequence
back, to have things happy.
I hope that this will help, I have found that Mandrake makes the install
much easier. KDE has working icons, one will even mount and unmount the
cdrom imagine that.
John
Rich Christie wrote:
> I am trying to install Linux Mandrake 5.3, and for some reason I am
> having a great deal of difficulty. I am trying to put it on a system
> that currently runs Redhat Linux 5.0, and in a sense 'upgrade' it. It
> doesn't seem to want to work. I have the CD, and I made the boot disk
> from the CD, as I did with Redhat 5.0 (since the original got stepped
> on..).
>
> The system is an older 486 66mhz with 16mb ram, and all the hardware is
> currently supported and works fine under Redhat 5.0. It will not boot
> into the CD automatically.
>
> Here are some of the things I have tried:
>
> Creating the boot disk from 5 different disks. Some I formatted under
> Windows 98, some under Windows 95. I run Scandisk on them as well. None
> worked.
>
> I tried 'dd < boot.img > /dev/fd0' under Linux. Didn't work.
>
> I tried using a boot disk from Redhat Linux 5.0. Didn't work.
>
> I downloaded a copy of boot.img )off of the Linux Mandrake site) and
> used that for the boot disk eventualy, (using rawrite) figuring the cd
> copy might be corrupt. Didn't work.
>
> When the 'Welcome to Linux Mandrake 5.3' comes up, I've also typed in
> 'expert' thinking I may have unsupported hardware (Remember this system
> works fine with Redhat 5.0 though). Still didn't work.
>
> I have read through various info at the Linux Mandrake homepage
> (http://www.linux-mandrake.com). This includes the Atapi FAQ, The Linux
> BLFAQ, etc.
>
> I've worked on this for literally 10+ hours in thelast 2 days, and I am
> really looking forward to getting it going. (I can use it just fine
> under RH 5.0 still though).
>
> The systen hangs after I boot from the boot disk, and it starts to say:
>
> 'Loading initrd.img...."
>
> After four dots, the system hangs and I am forced to reboot.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas to help me out? I'd really appreciate it.
>
> -Rich
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