On Mon, 28 May 2001, you wrote:
> I know this might sound like a winders type of solutition,,,
> first step is to go into Bios, and turn off (set to NO) Plug and pray
aware
> OS,
Did that... tried it both ways.
> and turn off any bios level virus protection,
don't see any
> if that was allready done
> and/or made no difference, I would remove all the cards from my computer
> execpt the video card and retry.
The only other card I have is the nic card
Other things I've tried:
- Used more than one CD drive to boot from - same results
- Booted from a floppy made with the CD.img as per manual - same results
- Tried installing RedHat7 - that started working, now running it on machine
in
question
- tried the mandrake install disks on another computer - they work
- tried the install CDs made from a download - same results
Anyway you cut it this is a problem unique to mandrake8 - RedHat is
installed
ok, but I didn't pay $80 for redhat, and I don't want it. it's also unique
to
this machine because the purchased disks work on my other computer - a
laptop
which I don't want Linux on.
> I would also like to say that more
> information about your computer would be helpfull here.. what MB,
192 MG
> what brand
> and model HD,
Maxtor 88455d8, 8 gig
>network card,
> modem
no modem
> sound card,
yamaha opl
> what irq and DMA channels
BIOS says they are all available if memory serves - I don't have any
reserved.
> memory sticks,
two 32MG and a 128 to make 192MG Ram
>speed etc CPU,
P 2, 266
> Bus
data bus width = 64 bits
address bus width = 32 bits
the computer is a Dell Demension
> On Sunday 27 May 2001 00:51, you wrote:
> > I am now attempting to install from purchased mandrake 8.0 CDs
> > from the powerpack.
> >
> > Partition check:
> > hda: hda1 hda2 <hda5>
> > RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
> > Uncompressing....
> <snip>
> > Any ideas what else I could try?
