On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 13:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Thanks for the attempt but that isn't the situation here. > > My apologies for not making it clearer. The problem seems to be linked > with my new motherboard in particular. > > It runs Mandrake 8.1 and 8.2 beautifully. It just won't install Mandrake > 9.0 (I also tried RedHat 8.0 for that matter). > I know the installation CDs are fine because I used them on other PCs. I > know the CDRom drive isn't the problem because it reads the cds without a > problem. It seems to be the actual installation that causes the freeze to > the system. > > When booting from a disk after writing an cdrom.img to it, it still > freezes just before the 2nd phase of the installation startup. > The same goes for any attempt booting from the harddrive as I copy the > entire 3 CDs to another hardrive in a fat32 partition and use a floppy > with the hd.img image to boot. BTW, that is an awesome trick to > accelerate installation for those whom are curious. It has other benefits > too. >
Frank: What I did, was to make a boot disk in windows using the cd image from the alternate directory. I then booted using this floppy and it asked for the first cd, once it loaded into memory, I did an upgrade to LM 8.2, which was already installed. after completing the installation,when LILO came up, I booted to the "old linux" and was able to get to my LM 9.0 upgrade with no problem. I then renamed 'old linux' to just linux so that when it automatically booted to linux,it would boot with no problems. I do not like this motherboard and will be replacing it next week. I am actually using a celeron 400 MHz machine right now which had no problem loading LM 9.0.Feel free to email me off list if you have any other questions about it. Walt
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