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Installing Linux.. how hard can it be? :(

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networkman

Lifer
After downloading the Mandrake 9.0 ISO files and burning to CD, I figure I'll go ahead and do an install since it's just supposed to be incredibly easy..

I grab a Tbird 1.2 with 256meg ram and figure okay, shouldn't take long, supposed to be easy, I don't need to back up the system(Win98), so I blow it away(fdisk), restart with Mandrake CD1 in drive.

Boots from CD and prompts me to either hit enter(for new install or upgrade existing) or hit F1 for "other options". I hit enter. It identifies the CPU, hard drive(Seagate 4gig) and the CDRom drive(Toshiba 32x ide). A progress bar starts to go across the screen, and then it stops and in the lower left corner I see:

Could not recover.
Please restart system. :frown:

I've tried a couple different CDRom drives now with no luck and the CDs work fine in another machine.. is the hard drive too small? And if so, why does it leave me that useless message?

I'll give it a few more tries tomorrow, but right now I'm ticked 'cuz I've lost a D2OL cruncher for the night. :disgust:
 
hit F4 (I think) for the Kernel messages to be displayed, give a better idea what is happening.












SHUX
 
Sounds like it is trying to update instead of clean insall. Try redhat and see what it does. 😉

Remy <---- Fan of redhat. 😛

I am not sure have you went to the mandrake site to see if you can find out what that error means? Also you might want to format that HD. I don't know what formater it uses but I remeber when i tried it back in the 7.2 days it did a horrible job. 🙁 thats why I decided to not use linux..
 
it sounds like its failing in the "second stage" install, when its loading into RAM not the HDD.











SHUX
 
When it gets that error, try holding down the left alt button, and pressing f2
try f3, f4, etc... all of the way to f12. Each one of these is a virtual console, and a lot of times the linux installation will display information (possibly including better error messages) in one of the other virtual consoles
 
Hmmm...the Mandrake 9 install was incredibly painless on this system, and I even made it harder by requiring it to repartition a single-partition Windows drive without losing any Windows data! Be absolutely certain that you're telling it to do a fresh install, not an upgrade.
 
Hmmm, Linux is in my experiance the easiest OS to install. Strange that you're getting problems.

Hope you get your comp back up!
 
Im having problems getting a SCSI controller to work with Mandrake on my 6th machine... I have 4 others running Mandrake with no problems. This one doesnt like my controller even though it has native driver support.
 
Sorry, been doing demolition in my kitchen all day. 🙂 Tomorrow I'll be installing more drywall - so much for having time to do the install. 🙁 The board in question is a single processor board with built-in video/sound.

I'm going to put Win2K back on it and install Linux on the dual p2-400 IBM - that has run Linux in the past, so I'm not expecting any problems with it.
 
Maybe Mandrake prefers Intel or supports it best. I have it running now on 5 Intel nodes. One of them is a P4T533 and the OS is a lot older than it is.
 
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