> Gerald Davies wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I`m still trying to install Mandrake 7 on a P75 16meg RAM via a local
> win2k FTP server as i have no cdrom.
>
> It gets to a point where i get the following message
>
> 'Loading second stage ramdisk...'
>
> and hangs or proceeds to do nothing for a very very long time ;)
>
> any suggestions / solutions much appreciated.
I was having problems installing M7.0 on my P100 32M RAM.
One thing I was able to do it check the different screens
to see what was going on.
use:
CTRL-ALT-F1
CTRL-ALT-F2
CTRL-ALT-F3
CTRL-ALT-F4
to switch between the four different screens.
F1 is the main screen, F2 is a shell (if it gets that far),
F3 and F4 contain other useful information during the install
process.
When I checked the F4 screen, I found that it was having problems
with the CD-ROM. Switching to another CD-ROM solved the problem
(that, and using the text install, instead of the graphical one).
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