Hello,

I have two questions for which I would be most grateful to receive any help:

The first is a problem I am having during the Mandrake graphical
installation process and I haven't found an answer in searching the
archives. The installation has crashed during the file copying phase under
recommended, custom, and expert install modes. I go through the process past
partitioning and formatting drives, I choose the packages to install, then
the installation copying from cd begins.  During this phase, the
installation exits with 'error 11' and I see a text screen with some dumped
error messages.  This part happens so fast that it is difficult for me to
see exactly what package is being installed when the problem occurs but it
seems to have happened at different places.  I did make notes on the error
messages during one install, but I will need to post those later if
necessary since I left them at home.  One involved errors reported that
looked like an assertion failure, window!=NULL.  This may all be too vague,
but I'd appreciate any hints at where to start looking for a solution.

PS, I just thought of something: perhaps I must make sure mboard is not
using ATA66 during installation?  I now remember seeing something about
that.  I'll post this anyway, but I'll check on that.

The second question may be related to the first:
I am attempting to install Mandrake 7.0 on hdb, a 7Gig drive. hda is a 20G
IBM drive that holds win95 and winNT.  My plan was to make a system that
loads LILO in the hda MBR then if booting linux, boots from a boot partition
on hdb.  I assumed I could also just choose to boot linux from a floppy that
tells the system that \boot is on hdb.  Maybe I'm totally messed up in my
thinking.  Where should I put \boot? I know it must be below the 1024
cylinder, but which drive?  I've found several dual/triple boot descriptions
but all dealt with using one hd only -- which I assumed to be more
difficult.

[system is Athlon 700, Asus K7M mboard, ati rage fury 128 vga]

If anyone has any pointers, I'd be most grateful.

Thanks,

Dylan


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Dylan Schwilk
Department of Biological Sciences
Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305
Tel. (650) 723-6526
Fax. (650) 723-6132
http://www.stanford.edu/~schwilk/
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