Hard-Drive installation of Mandrake 9.2
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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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?
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.
