just installed mandrake 7.2

[jhu]

now i get a seg fault when i load it. wth's going on??? grrr! anyone else have this problem before?

 

[bubba]

I haven't seen that one. I would probably reload it before I tried to debug it too much. If it happened again I would then try to figure out what it was loading when it segfaults and poke around at that point.

 

[TonyRic]

I receive a segment fault from 7.2 on my i810 MB (Web Server) if I do any install other than a Workstation install... If you are customizing the install or doing a server install redo it as a workstation install and install/uninstall the packages you need...

 

[SUOrangeman]

I have a working workstation install on my i810 Dell. The only install problem I've experienced was with a few bad RPMs on the second CD. I haven't determined if it was a cad CD burn or just the original file (md5sums are correct, but I burned the ISOs across the network).

-SUO

 

[jhu]

could it just be a badly burned cd? i got the iso off one of mandrake's mirrors. on the other hand, the install went fine and lilo loads. i didn't bother to install the second cd.

on a side note, is there some sort of minimal linux distribution that contains the base, development, and X only? what i didn't like about mandrake was that it wouldn't let me completely get rid of stuff i didn't want without not installing stuff i did want.

 

[SUOrangeman]

If you have the balls, go Debian. I wish you MUCH luck with that.

Back to LM7.2, do you have a boot floppy? Does it yield a differnt result?

-SUO

 

[jhu]

ok, got it working. turns out i shouldn't have messed with the lilo configuration during installation. so i did it after and it works. and i don't have the balls for debian, yet.

 

[MGMorden]

Actually I've found Slackware to be better than Debian IMHO. It's a pain in the neck to configure (takes forever), but once it's setup I've found Slackware to be the best working distro I've ever used.

 

[jhu]

i wanted to try freebsd but i don't think my voodoo2 is supported...