Greetings!
Veteran Linux user here, tryin' out Mandrake Linux for the first time ...
First off, I can't get through the install. Here's what happens:
Everything goes along fine until we're in the stage where the hard drive
gets partitioned. I have a 6G drive and I wanted to partition it
manually ... so I do. 128M swap, 512M root, the rest goes to usr.
Don't comment on how intelligent or stupid my partitioning scheme is,
please - that shouldn't be at issue here :)
The installer partitioning interface works fine, I click "done", it pops
up a message about writing the partition table to disk "ok" and then I
get the error ... some kind of incomplete sentence about swap. Here it
is verbatim:
An error occurred
swap area needs to be.
WTF? so I hit "OK" ... try again ... I've tried a million different
things ... I've tried using ALT+F2 to get to the command line, used the
fdisk on the CD to manually partition the drive, write out the
partition, reboot the system ... no go.
This isn't some crazy system ... fairly new, actually. AMD Athlon 700
w/ 6G Seagate medalist pro drive, 128M ram, 66MHz UDMA capable, but I
think the drive is actually a 33MHz ...
Any help at all would be most sincerely appreciated!
Regards,
Brice Ruth
