I'm UNIX-autistic

[EyeMWing]

I can somehow manage to fubar a simple Mandrake installation every time, and yet I just did a Gentoo Stage1 and it worked perfectly.

wtf?

 

[Hyperblaze]

Originally posted by: EyeMWing
I can somehow manage to fubar a simple Mandrake installation every time, and yet I just did a Gentoo Stage1 and it worked perfectly.

wtf?

what steps did you do?

This is kinda hard to imagine.

 

[EyeMWing]

Originally posted by: Jero

Originally posted by: EyeMWing
I can somehow manage to fubar a simple Mandrake installation every time, and yet I just did a Gentoo Stage1 and it worked perfectly.

wtf?

what steps did you do?

This is kinda hard to imagine.

All of it, from bootstrapping to endgame.

 

[Hyperblaze]

Originally posted by: EyeMWing

Originally posted by: Jero

Originally posted by: EyeMWing
I can somehow manage to fubar a simple Mandrake installation every time, and yet I just did a Gentoo Stage1 and it worked perfectly.

wtf?

what steps did you do?

This is kinda hard to imagine.

All of it, from bootstrapping to endgame.

Let me rephrase that, what error message do you yet?

 

[Klixxer]

For some reason many people get strange results with Mandrake and better results with other distros, i haven't really looked into why, i just always assumed that it was hardware recognition or file corruption.

What i do know is that Gentoo was (and perhaps still is) the distro everyone with a nforce2 board swore by, it worked flawlessly where other distros failed, i think i remember the same thing applying to athlon MP motherboards but i am not sure.

Probably has changed since then though, was a while ago.

Anywayz, without logs or error messages it is impossible to know why.

 

[JetBlack69]

gentoo is good. 🙂

 

[EyeMWing]

Originally posted by: Jero

Originally posted by: EyeMWing

Originally posted by: Jero

Originally posted by: EyeMWing
I can somehow manage to fubar a simple Mandrake installation every time, and yet I just did a Gentoo Stage1 and it worked perfectly.

wtf?

what steps did you do?

This is kinda hard to imagine.

All of it, from bootstrapping to endgame.

Let me rephrase that, what error message do you yet?

It works. I'm as perplexed as you are, but everything just "made sense"

I did make one mistake, typo'd "march" as "marc", thus resulting in bootstrap.sh having a heart attack until I figured out what was wrong.

 

[xcript]

Originally posted by: JetBlack69
gentoo is good. 🙂

:thumbsup:

 

[EyeMWing]

Originally posted by: Klixxer
For some reason many people get strange results with Mandrake and better results with other distros, i haven't really looked into why, i just always assumed that it was hardware recognition or file corruption.

What i do know is that Gentoo was (and perhaps still is) the distro everyone with a nforce2 board swore by, it worked flawlessly where other distros failed, i think i remember the same thing applying to athlon MP motherboards but i am not sure.

Probably has changed since then though, was a while ago.

Anywayz, without logs or error messages it is impossible to know why.

Well, I also tried several other distros and OSes (FreeBSD and Slackware come to mind) and those refused to get even half as far (FBSD setup wouldn't see my NIC, thus I terminated it because I'll be damned if I'm installing from a CD)

 

[Hyperblaze]

If it's going for bootstrap

Put the cd1 back in, reboot,

during installation....

select upgrade

don't bother trying to install or upgrade anything

in the summery, go to boot loader and put it back to dhcp or whatever your using...

hopefully this will solve your problem. please let me know.

 

[Klixxer]

Originally posted by: EyeMWing

Originally posted by: Klixxer
For some reason many people get strange results with Mandrake and better results with other distros, i haven't really looked into why, i just always assumed that it was hardware recognition or file corruption.

What i do know is that Gentoo was (and perhaps still is) the distro everyone with a nforce2 board swore by, it worked flawlessly where other distros failed, i think i remember the same thing applying to athlon MP motherboards but i am not sure.

Probably has changed since then though, was a while ago.

Anywayz, without logs or error messages it is impossible to know why.

Well, I also tried several other distros and OSes (FreeBSD and Slackware come to mind) and those refused to get even half as far (FBSD setup wouldn't see my NIC, thus I terminated it because I'll be damned if I'm installing from a CD)

I have never had a problem with FreeBSD, Slackware, ArchLinux or OpenBSD, in some cases i had to create special boot disks with the drivers of my HW but that rarely happens anymore as i usually buy hardware that i know will work from scratch.

You could probably have avoided the problems by doing either of those things. 😉

 

[Klixxer]

Originally posted by: EyeMWing

Originally posted by: Jero

Originally posted by: EyeMWing

Originally posted by: Jero

Originally posted by: EyeMWing
I can somehow manage to fubar a simple Mandrake installation every time, and yet I just did a Gentoo Stage1 and it worked perfectly.

wtf?

what steps did you do?

This is kinda hard to imagine.

All of it, from bootstrapping to endgame.

Let me rephrase that, what error message do you yet?

It works. I'm as perplexed as you are, but everything just "made sense"

I did make one mistake, typo'd "march" as "marc", thus resulting in bootstrap.sh having a heart attack until I figured out what was wrong.

Ah, user error.

 

[Hyperblaze]

Originally posted by: Klixxer

Originally posted by: EyeMWing

Originally posted by: Jero

Originally posted by: EyeMWing

Originally posted by: Jero

Originally posted by: EyeMWing
I can somehow manage to fubar a simple Mandrake installation every time, and yet I just did a Gentoo Stage1 and it worked perfectly.

wtf?

what steps did you do?

This is kinda hard to imagine.

All of it, from bootstrapping to endgame.

Let me rephrase that, what error message do you yet?

It works. I'm as perplexed as you are, but everything just "made sense"

I did make one mistake, typo'd "march" as "marc", thus resulting in bootstrap.sh having a heart attack until I figured out what was wrong.

Ah, user error.

of course 🙂 couldn't of been a problem with the distro itself 😀

(I'm just poking fun, to those who get offended by above statement)