On Thursday 30 August 2001 09:38, you wrote: > Hi > > Thanks for your recent reply. Looks like a great community here. > > I have been attempting a Mandrake installation on a Pentuim 200 MMX > system with 96MB memory. This system has two 6 gig hard drives and each > drive is partitioned 50/50. The system is setup purely for > practice/training purposes and therefore no problems with data loss. It > is also connected via ethernet to a laptop running win2k Pro. > > I am totally new to Linux or Mandrake or anything UNIX. This > installation was with the help of a visiting learned friend who is no > longer around. > > It has a 3 Com ISA NIC, PCI to SCSI card and an ISA Vibra Sound card. > The video is integrated S3 I think its a Trio but not a hundred percent > on this. I have a SCSI Toshiba CD ROM as a master to a a TEAC SCSI CD > Recorder. > > I had Win 2000 Pro and Win 2000 Server on one drive and Win 98 on the > master drive. This latter drive being left with the second partition > free. I decided to run the Mandrake 8 installation from Win98 and > install it on the same disk as the Win98 but on the free partion. > > The installation took the best part of two hours. It differentiated the > two hard drives hdb 0 and hdb 1. I selected to install a whole bunch of > components. I selected root password and user. But the installation went > belly up at the eleventh hour. It was selecting a display resolution of > 1024 x 768. This produced pyjama like stripes. > > I restarted with the Mandrake boot disk and went through the > installation, this time selecting 800 x 600. Still got the stripes. > > I then Took out the boot disk to try and boot normally into one of the > Windows operating systems. > Instead of the normal triple boot menu I get " > > "This > > > is not a bootable disk. Please insert a bootable floppy and press any > > key to try again"... > > When I boot into the Mandrake boot disk to try a second installation I > get the following. > The normal installation screen giving an option press enter to start or > F1 for more options. > > > If I select F1 for more options I get a screen saying "can't access a > > Linux > > > installation disk in your CDROM drive ( indicating the burner's name > > ). > > For some reason it likes the CD to be read from the burner rather the > read only drive. > > > options are "0 for YES" "1 for NO" and "2 for BACK". If I choose 1 it > > will read disk displaying a host of files. "Which driver should I try > > to gain SCSI access? There are 34 files. As an example there is > > NCR53C406A.0. > > All options, i.e. Whether I try to "enter" for "installation" or press > "F1" for "more options" would give me the same result. I.e. The 34 file > list. > > > Do you still think I can avoid rebuilding? How can I extract LILO and > > where should it be copied to if not the hard drive? > > I have also tried booting into seperately by disconnecting one hard > drive. But still get the same message discribed. "This is not a bootable > drive". > > I am considering a rebuild. Would like to know the cleanest way to go > about this. Would be best if I connected the hard drives one at a time > in order to install the operating systems seperately. > > Or should I keep them connected, wipe both. Install Windows 2000 Pro and > Server then use Win2K to boot into Mandrake 8. > > Alternatively should I wipe every thing and install Mandrake 8 from the > boot disk. > How do I make sure LILO installs correctly for multi boot menu? > > I thank you all in advance. > > Sincerely > Siavash Sefidvash I'm sending this to the list , maybe again, cause a good bit of the questions are beyond my current knowledge at this point. A little help here please for Siavash. TIA -- Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842
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