On Wednesday 05 January 2005 09:17 pm, Andr�s Keszei wrote: > On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 12:28, Aron Smith wrote: > > I have an old Compaq Armada here with no CD-ROM by removing the HDD (6Gb) > > and u7sing an adapter I was able to install ? Mdk 10.1 on the drive. > > After reinstalling the drive I find that I have a problem > > Kernel panic : No init found Try passingi nit= optionn to kernel > > So what do I do now (oboviously I have reached my level of incompentance > > It seems to me that you installed mandrake on a different computer than > your laptop, and then just tried to get away with slipping the harddrive > back. As during the install the kernel is configured to make the most > of the machine it was installed on, it will panic when it finds itself > surrounded an unknown processor, mainboard, etc. The only way you could > have gotten away with it, is if you had found an exactly the same armada > _with_ a CD drive and installed on that. > So, if you have a floppy drive, you can try a network install. Or, copy > the install files to a partition on the harddrive, set it up as source > during an install starting from floppy. I haven't done this before, but > I think it has been discussed on the list. If you have no floppy drive > either, then we've reached the level of my incompetence also. > Andras Thanks gang am giving up on using Mandrake on that POS will try Damn Small Linux (Hey it only takes 12 floppys)
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