[wellylug] Mandrake install

[Peter Jones]

tried that and  there is a boot routine but it then said I had to insert the
first disk.
I'm currently trying the text install suggest by Damon.  25% installing
packages so far
will advise outcome

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Klenner, Colin [mailto:colin.klenner at eds.com]
> Sent: Monday, 30 September 2002 09:09
> To: 'wellylug at yahoogroups.com'
> Subject: RE: [wellylug] Mandrake install
> 
> 
> Have you tried booting from Disk-2 CD instead of Disk-1? Isn't there
> supposed tobe some difference that addresses different machine specs?
> 
> Colin
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Jones [mailto:PeterJ at indeserve.co.nz]
> Sent: Monday, 30 September 2002 8:57 
> To: 'wellylug at yahoogroups.com'
> Subject: [wellylug] Mandrake install
> 
> 
> Hello, attempting to install mandrake 8.2 on a PIII 750 
> (Celeron 1000 but
> the board is 100FSB), 128meg. Video is on board Voodoo3. 
> The box is currently running Lycoris and detects all the hardware no
> worries.
> Booting off the Mandrake CD (even using th VGALO option) 
> results in in a
> screen full of stuff that  includes "to analyse the crash 
> dump please type 
> gdb XF86_FBDev //core
> where
> XIO: fatal IO error 104 (connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0"
> after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining
> GtK warning **: cannot open display: :0 at 
> /usr/bin/perl-install/my_gtk:pm
> line 315
> 
> so I guess its something to do with the video.
> 
> As mentioned, Lycoris runs on this box fine, and so does Knoppix 3.1
> 
> does mandrake have issues with Voodoo3? 
> The exisitng Lycoris system is still on the disk, should I 
> format first to
> clear it out?
> 
> thanks
> peter
> 
> 
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