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Ok, straight to the point. I have Mandrake 9.1, I have created the boot disc for it, and I can get to the main screen, when the cd first boots up. I press <Enter> to begin installation, then the loading bar fills up. Then, the screen goes black, and the Caps Lock and Scroll Lock lights on my keyboard begin to flash. Now its frozen, CTRL+ALT+DEL does nothing, so I have to do a hard reboot. My PC currently has no OS on it, I am on my parents PC at the moment, until I can figure everything out.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Check the bios and if you are booting off cd, then change the boot order to cd, floppy then harddrive.
If you are installing with floppy, change the order to floppy, cd, then hard drive.
P.S...Are you talking about installing linux or booting linux because you are talking about a boot disk yet you are tlking about installation lol.
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I mean installing, but I made a boot disk from the images on CD1. cdrom.img, because I was having problems. Boot order was set at CD-ROM, Floppy, then HDD-0. But I still had the problem... :'( Thank you for your response.
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If you can actually BOOT from the CD-ROM (or DVD-ROM) itself, you do not need a boot-disk at all.
Also, if you can not boot from the CD and do need to use a boot disk, make very sure that you use a good-known floppy, and if you can't copy the boot image successfully, use RAWWRITE utility to write the floppy with the boot image from the Mandrake CD. (I had a similar problme when I was testing Mandrake 9.1 for a laptop that does not allow to boot from CD. In my case the problem was the floppy and the image itself)
And why can't you boot from CD?Regards and hope it helps...
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hi,
I had the same prob.......!
but I used the CD to boot....,
floppy, cd, then hard drive,should be the sequence.
intead of enter, choose f1 go to advance set up it will give you 4 choices. I picked the TEXT choice (the only one that worked)
follow instructions, it should work fine,
reason for this I could find was prob a hardware conflict.
it helps if you set up the drive first with partition magic floppys or someting like that.
choose install an operating system(this is with p magic)it will set up ext2 and the swop for you, reboot with the cd and try from there.
hope this helps..........!
Jacques
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Are you sure you burned the ISO images
correctly? You should be able to boot from
the CDs then.
Did you check the md5sums after
downloading? The images may have become
corrupt.
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Whether I press Enter or F1, it doesnt matter. The loading bar fills up, then my pc freezes. And I got the ISOs from http://www.linux-iso.org
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Ok, forget that. I got it installed now, but I cant figure out how to boot it up. It boots to a black screen where it asks for my user name and password. I ente both, then it goes to a command prompt. I have no idea what to type in there.
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Ok, I re-installed Red Hat. Now I need to install PengAOL on it. I tried to install penggy-0.2.1-2.i386.rpm, and I get this error:
Packages Not Found:The following packages could not be found on your system. Installation cannot continue until they are installed.
libquile.so.6
libqthreads.so.0Someone tell me what these are/how to fix it. Thanx for your help.
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A quick search on google for the file names
shows that they are contained in the
package guile
Do a search on http://rpmfind.net for guile
and you should be able to find it.
You may want to look into something like
urpmi or apt-get which automatically
resolve and download dependencies.
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I have the same problem ind I'm almost sure that Geforce FX is not suported by Manrdake yet. I don't know how to install new nvidia dirvers Can Anybody Help?
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They have detailed install instructions on
their website. Download the file, run it
and then edit your /etc/X11/XF86Config(-4)
file.
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