Okay...I am officially a moron. The CD's were corrupt alright...corrupt with dirt and grime. Nothing a little elbow grease couldn't fix. So, in spite of my pea-size brain, I am in the ball game...LM 7.2 is installed on my Sony Vaio PCG-F160. Now, I got one more question: The LCD display is working OK with the Generic LCD 1024x786 resolution XFree86 driver. Would I be better off with the Neomagic driver with the XFCom server? Keep in mind, I'm not new to Linux. A little down-n-dirty configuration doesn't scare me. I have been using Linux for some time now, just new at the whole laptop thing. And beside I usually get better responses in the Newbie mailing list (go figure). thank you every one, -jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I an inclined to agree with your suggestion of corrupt CD (s), > I installed 7.2 on my Vaio PCG - F250 with no problems at all, it was > (before upgrade) very similar spec i.e:- > Celeron 366 > 32mb Ram > 4.3Gb HD > Don't know about the F160 but mine uses Neomagic sound and video cards and > has a 13.0" XGA HPA screen > On Sunday 18 March 2001 05:16, you elegantly scribed: > <snip> > > > Anyway, to get to > > the point, what I found is my copy of Mandrake 7.2 had some corrupt files > > on it, > > > > On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, you managed to utter: > > > I am have problem installing LM 7.2 on my Laptop. > > > > > > System Info: > > > > > > Sony Vaio PCG-F160 > > > 300 MHz P2 > > > 64 MB Ram > > > 4 GB Fujitsu HD > > > > > > During installation it will do one of the following three things: > > > > > > 1) Hangs-up* on installing gpm > > > > > > 2) Hangs-up* on installing grep > > > > > > 3) Prompts user with: error installing pkgs gpm, grep, perl-base -> > > > so, I click "Go On". Then Prompts user with: error installing pkgs > > > gtk+, rpm , slang, util-linx, SysVinit -> again I click "Go On". > > > Finally, it hangs-up* on installing grub > > > > > > * - what I mean by "hangs-up" is that the machine will do nothing other > > > than turn the cooling fan on and off, for more than 30 min when I > > > reboot. This means no HD operation, no CD-ROM movement, and no screen > > > change. > > > > > > All power managements is turned off in the BIOS. These LM 7.2 CD's > > > were created some time in early January (I think). > > > > > > It doesn't matter what type of installation I choose, one of the above > > > three things will occur. > > > > > > Any help will greatly be appreciated, > > > > > > -jason
