On Wed, 2002-07-10 at 16:10, Joe Harkins wrote: > I'm having a very weird trip trying to install Mandrake 8.2 on the secod HD > on this box. I'm running WINxp on the primary drive and want Mandrake on > the smaller (6 gigs). > > I have had many weird things occur, some that seem impossible. It's hard to > figure out which are significant so I that would lead to a sound diagnosis > and relevant guidance. But if you are patient and enjoy a strange tale, > please follow this . . .
OK I did/will. > First, I installed Partition Magic on the WIN HD in order to make sure the > HD for which Mandrake was intended is OK. Maybe the issues raised at that > point are clues to problems that have come up during many subsequent > attempts to install M 8.2. First thing: Ditch PM. See the newbie archives for my own woes with that POS Partitioning software (shitware?). It gave similiar errors to the ones you describe later on, YET linux & winsucks both had 0 problems with the drives in question. Ditto for the partitions. This leads me to suspect PM uses some sort of proprietary partitioning schemes. I don't know here, I'm guessing. Juse use MDK's partitioning stuff & you'll be fine. > I proceeded to boot into M 8.2 installation from the CD. I auto-allocated > the partitions (/ - swap and /home) and installed M 8.2 in the "/" > partition (later I tried it in the "/home" partition with no different > results.) This is an "expert" or "newbie" install? need some specifics. > It too went normally. When it came to the end, I was prompted to enter my > user and password. I did. It was followed by a prompt that said > > [joeharkins@localhost joeharkins]$ > Normal command line prompt. It expects *like a DOS prompt* information to be input here. > And that was that. I have no clue as to what it wanted. Nothing that I > could think of worked except ctrl-alt-del which I finally used to get out. Heh next time to reboot try ALT-SYSRQ (ya that useless button actually has a use in LINUX ! OMG!)-L, or H next time. <giant snip> > "Segmentation fault; seems like memory is missing as the install crashes" > (That must as have been written buy a non-English speaker) Trust me M$hit's error msgs mean just as much. Segfault=BSOD for winsucks. > And when I hit enter a second text message mixes in with the previous > message and says "switch to console f2 for a shell." In other words, if you think you know what you're doing, hit ctrl-alt-F2 for cmd line so you can fix your fooked up linux install. :) > Of course, none of that is of any help to me because the machine is hung > and no keys are functional. > > Until all of this happened, I ran the smaller HD under WIN 98 as drives > D,E, and F with G as the CD. So I believe the HD to be sound - even though > Partition Magic says it has problems. > As I said, PM lies. Plain & simple. > > Hope you enjoyed the trip and I hope even stronger that you have some ideas > for fixing the problem. I'd greatly appreciate it. I was impressed by the > little I saw but wish i could have enjoyed it longer and more consistently. > > TIA Keep up the dialogue i'm sure in time some of us will be able to get you up & running again. Femme
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