I replaced it with a different model and manufactuer cd
drive. Also it does make it to the second level part of the
installation. The first part where I am asked to select
language and type of installation , reccomended or expert
seems to work just fine. The problem is in the next stage. it
hangs on detecting hard drive. At this point I can still use the
mouse pointer that appears as a wrist wach however I am
unable to do anything else. To get out of the installation I
have to do a hard restart.
I really dont understand the fine points of installing a OS
but it seems to me that if it was a issue with a driver for the
cd the installation would not make it through the first stage.
Please correct me if I am wrong.
Just trying to mae some sense of it all and maybe learn a bit
along the way.
Thanks for all the help so far.
Marc
>Marc,
> Yeap, its a driver issue, its the limited amount of
drivers loaded into 9.0
>kernel. Hmmmm, did you replace the CDROM with the
same model of the CDROM?
>Search on Mandrake for errate on your Hardware
manufacturers. I thought we
>were done with this crap years ago........
>
>
>
>On Monday 16 December 2002 06:59 am, Marc wrote:
>> 12/13/02 12:18:26 PM, Vasiliy Boulytchev
>>
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >Gentlemen, I have had this error in the past, but I
believe
>>
>> with FreeBSD 4.6.
>>
>> >I do NOT remember what exactly it was that I did. OH
>>
>> YEAH!!! I think it was
>>
>> >the CDROM. Believe it or not. Replace the IDE
cdrom,
>>
>> and install will fly
>>
>> >right through, unbelievable, but im 99 percent sure
thats
>>
>> what i did,
>>
>> >because Ive swapped a few HDs and it was doing the
same
>>
>> ****. You can at
>>
>> >least try.....
>> >
>> >On Friday 13 December 2002 08:31 am, wouter pos
wrote:
>> >> I had have the same problem HELP US!!!!
>> >>
>> >> greetings wouter pos
>> >>
>> >> --- Marc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >> > I have a set of 9.0 CDs that I am shure are good
>> >> > because
>> >> > I have used them to install 9.0 on 2 other
machines.
>> >> > Last
>> >> > night I went to install mandrake on a friends
>> >> > machine ,
>> >> > things seemed to be going well for the first minite
>> >> > or 2 and
>> >> > then it hung while on hard drive detection part of
>> >> > the
>> >> > installation.
>> >> > I tried to repeat the installation several times
>> >> > useing the
>> >> > reccomended and then the expert mode. I even
tried
>> >> > to use
>> >> > Partition Magic to repartiton the hard drive first
>> >> > still no luck.
>> >> > This machine allready has windoze 98se installed
>> >> > on a 60
>> >> > GB western digital hard drive, Athlon 1.7XP
>> >> > processor and
>> >> > 256 MB ram I was useing a cd drive installed on
IDE
>> >> >
>> >> > channel 2 and operating as a slave.
>> >> > Could this be the problem ?
>> >> > I have never tried to install off a cd that was a
>> >> > slave before
>> >> > however it seems to me that It should be ok.
>> >> > Any one have any Ideas where this installation is
>> >> > going
>> >> > wrong?
>> >> >
>> >> > Thanks in advance
>> >> > Marc
>>
>> I tried switching the CD drive to master, no luck Then
I
>> replaced the CD drive with a new one fresh out of the box
>> and still no luck. Tried mandrake 8.2 instead of 9.0 and
still
>> no luck. I then tried to install 8.1 IT WORKED!!!
>> After that I tried to upgrade to 9.0 and back to the
same
>> old story, the installation hung in the same spot again.
>> Anyone have any idea what is going on and how to fix
it?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Marc
>
>--
>Vasiliy Boulytchev
>Colorado Information Technologies Inc.
>(719) 473-2800 x15
>
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