Manny Styles wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Lloyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 1999 7:40 AM
> Subject: Re: [newbie] installing 6.0
>
> > "Lyndon Lininger Sr." wrote:
> > >
> > > Yes I have an old Compaq Prolinea 575. 75 Mhz pentium cpu, 64 M ram, 4.3
> gig
> > > ide hard drive, BTC cd-rw drive, kingtech sound card, altech 33.6 modem,
> the
> > > video is built into the motherboard, but is a cirrus gd5434. This system
> had
> > > no problem installing mandrake 5.3 or redhat 6.0. Hopefully this will
> help
> > > in the diagnosis. I can provide any log or init script files if that
> will
> > > help. I have a program that allows me to look at the linux drive from
> > > windows.
> > >
> > > Lyndon Lininger Sr.
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: Lloyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 1999 4:51 PM
> > > Subject: Re: [newbie] installing 6.0
> > >
> > > > "Lyndon Lininger Sr." wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Help I've tried upgrading from mandrake 5.3, clean installing 6.0
> and
> > > still
> > > > > can't get it to work. I got the cd from cheapbytes. Everything seems
> to
> > > > > install correctly, but when it re-boots I have nothing but problems.
> > > > >
> > > > > It goes thru boot until after the hard drive optimizations then I
> get
> > > the
> > > > > following errors.
> > > > >
> > > > > Creating /mnt/disk
> > > > > /bin/mkdir: /bin/mkdir: cannot execute binary file
> > > > >
> > > > > [FAILED]
> > > > > INIT: Entering runlevel: 3
> > > > > INIT: cannot execute etc/rc.d/rc
> > > > > INIT: Id "1" respawning to fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> > > > > INIT: Id "2" respawning to fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> > > > > INIT: Id "3" respawning to fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> > > > > INIT: Id "4" respawning to fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> > > > > INIT: Id "5" respawning to fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> > > > > INIT: Id "6" respawning to fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> > > > > INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel
> > > > >
> > > > > Then every five minutes it repeats the INIT respawning lines
> > > > > The only way to exit is to do a power down. Any ideas. Do I have a
> bad
> > > cd?
> > > > >
> > > > > Lyndon Lininger Sr.
> > > >
> > > > I have EXACTLY the same problem. I've tried to install
> > > > Mandrake 6 probably 15 times, ad I've been very fortunate if
> > > > I even got it to boot.
> > > > Maybe you could provide your hardware specifics?
> > > > --
> > > > Lloyd Osten
> > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > >
> >
> > I'm wondering if LM6 was compiled to use the cpu MMX
> > registers. Older Pentium cpu's (like mine, Pentium 90) don't
> > have them.
> > --
> > Lloyd Osten
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >
> You could have a point about the MMX technology. My pc is similar to
> Lyndon's (ie: Cirrus video built into the motherboard), but mine is A
> Packard Bell Legend 100CD 60MHZ Genuine Intel and 40 MB RAM. My problems
> are a little different since I am trying to install from my harddrive (I am
> getting the "Error loading RAMdisk message). I had no problems at all
> installing RedHat 6.0, so I am lead to believe that the problem stems from
> additions or optimizations made by the Mandrake team.
>
I tried installing LM6 via ftp and ended up with precisely
the same results as when I tried to install it from CD. Same
errors exactly. And on the few times it did boot, it had
bizarre file sizes (4 gigs on a 1.2 G disk--and there were 4
of them!) and files dates of 1920 and 1946.
Lloyd
