thanks a lot...
it worked.
may i thank you again.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Chin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2000 9:22 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] HELP NEEDED URGENTLY...
> 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.
> > Gerald Davies
> > -----------------------------------
> > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > ICQ: 40590468
> > -----------------------------------
>
> It happened to me also, the way I got it to work was to use the
> text_bootnet.img boot disk to install instead of the gui one. Then the
> important thing for me was to not install all the rpm's at once or too
> many of them. I just selected a minimal set of packages and it worked.
> Later, I just added the ones I need to the system. Give it a try.
>
>
