Hard-Drive installation of Mandrake 9.2
This is a discussion about Hard-Drive installation of Mandrake 9.2 in the Everything Linux category; i attempted a Harddrive installation. I didnt know what i was doing, and ended up unarchiving the iso's I have my harddrive partitioined, One WinXP, and one ext2, one swap i booted using the hd. img and everything was going along smoothly then the installation began not finding packages I later found the poackages ...
i attempted a Harddrive installation. I didnt know what i was doing, and ended up unarchiving the iso's
I have my harddrive partitioined, One WinXP, and one ext2, one swap
i booted using the hd.img and everything was going along smoothly
then the installation began not finding packages
I later found the poackages it didnt find were the ones not on the first
CD
I have 3 directories on my windows system
C:\MDK - 1st cd
c:\MDK2 - 2nd cd
C:\MDK3 - 3rd cd
the installation ended up completing and i had a running box, just a very limited one
i attempted to install a driver for my intel 537ep modem, and it needed autoconfig.h and advised me to install the linux source
this i attempted to do, but the RPMDrak couldnt find it
then everything stopped working, even the RPMdrak
so i ended up attempting to reinstall
but instead this time, i thought the installation may be more capable of finding the packages if they were in the same dir as the 1st cd
so i put the RPMS2 and RPMS3 (the RPM dir from cd 2 & 3 respectively) in the C:\MDK\Mandrake
folder.
the installation was again going smoothly, then crashed.
black screen type crash. It was on the Apache installation, exited abnormally.
it sajd the system can be safely rebooted now, so i did
it booted up to 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99...
did a little research, found out LILO was hosed.
Now for the question: What'd I do wrong? and is it possible to install using this method (without the actual *.ISO, but i have all the files)
Thanks a lot
--John
I have my harddrive partitioined, One WinXP, and one ext2, one swap
i booted using the hd.img and everything was going along smoothly
then the installation began not finding packages
I later found the poackages it didnt find were the ones not on the first
CD
I have 3 directories on my windows system
C:\MDK - 1st cd
c:\MDK2 - 2nd cd
C:\MDK3 - 3rd cd
the installation ended up completing and i had a running box, just a very limited one
i attempted to install a driver for my intel 537ep modem, and it needed autoconfig.h and advised me to install the linux source
this i attempted to do, but the RPMDrak couldnt find it
then everything stopped working, even the RPMdrak
so i ended up attempting to reinstall
but instead this time, i thought the installation may be more capable of finding the packages if they were in the same dir as the 1st cd
so i put the RPMS2 and RPMS3 (the RPM dir from cd 2 & 3 respectively) in the C:\MDK\Mandrake
folder.
the installation was again going smoothly, then crashed.
black screen type crash. It was on the Apache installation, exited abnormally.
it sajd the system can be safely rebooted now, so i did
it booted up to 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99...
did a little research, found out LILO was hosed.
Now for the question: What'd I do wrong? and is it possible to install using this method (without the actual *.ISO, but i have all the files)
Thanks a lot
--John
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OP
Just for a little further information: here are the spcs on my PC
it's a stock Dell Dimension 2400
P4 2.66 ghz
40 gb hdd, parted into: (values are approx)
30 gb, win
9.75 gb, MDK
250 mb = swap
standard Intel onboard video
Broadcom ethernet adapter
intel 537ep dialup modem
it's a stock Dell Dimension 2400
P4 2.66 ghz
40 gb hdd, parted into: (values are approx)
30 gb, win
9.75 gb, MDK
250 mb = swap
standard Intel onboard video
Broadcom ethernet adapter
intel 537ep dialup modem
There is a way to fix Lilo, but I'm not remembering how at the moment. Did you create a boot cd from Mandrake or XP?
OP
i got LILO repaired by doing a minimal reinstall
lilo works, will load windoze just fine
but when i boot linux,
it boots to a black acreena and stops
i tried ctrl+alt+f1 to get out of x, didnt work
now linux is unbootable
lilo works, will load windoze just fine
but when i boot linux,
it boots to a black acreena and stops
i tried ctrl+alt+f1 to get out of x, didnt work
now linux is unbootable
OP
ok sorry bout that
i really have to learn to proofread
in my prev. post
acreena = screen
i really have to learn to proofread
in my prev. post
acreena = screen
So, you get a black window with no command prompt?
I have read by some users, that Mandrake has a bug with these installs from a hard drive. Since you are back in Windows, I would burn some cd's from proper iso images and try an install.
I would also avoid using Mandrake's partitioning utility and re-format the current ext3 partition and start from scratch with a partitioning utility like PartitionMagic, before installing again. Most distro's do not like being installed over a prior installation.
I have read by some users, that Mandrake has a bug with these installs from a hard drive. Since you are back in Windows, I would burn some cd's from proper iso images and try an install.
I would also avoid using Mandrake's partitioning utility and re-format the current ext3 partition and start from scratch with a partitioning utility like PartitionMagic, before installing again. Most distro's do not like being installed over a prior installation.
