[TriLUG] Install hell

[John Warf]

I have sort of had around the same problem.  I was redoing my laptop 
this weekend to do RedHat 7.2 as the default boot and I was planning on 
putting Mandrake and a Windows OS on later.  Well when I was starting to 
install the RedHat the install would get to the end to where all that 
was left was configuring the X windows and my laptop shut off for no 
apparent reason.  I turned it back on and evedently it screwed up my 
Master Boot Record (MBR).  So I feel your pain man with 7.2 I had to 
install it 3 times for it to finally work.  All I got to say is keep trying.

John

Robert A. Henderson wrote:

>I've just wasted an entire day trying to install Mandrake 8.2 and
>RH 7.2.  I've installed earlier versions of both before just not on
>this machine.
>
>Everything starts off fine but dies after the first 100 or so RPMs go
>on the disk. Mandrake complains of a memory exhausted error, RH complains
>of (usually) a bad magic # on the bootblock or something similar.
>
>Dell XPS R450, 448Mb RAM, trying to install on a Maxtor 20G drive attached
>to a Maxtor ATA-100 controller.
>
>Machine boots/runs Win98 just fine. 98 formats and sees 20G drive, copied
>over a ton of files. Maxtor utilities check drive out as ok. 
>
>Radeon 7000 AGP, works ok, everything seems to be hunky dory except after
>the install writes to the disk for a while. Tried DiskDruid and FDISK
>(linux) and they see drive, partition, format, etc.
>
>I'm at a loss.
>
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John Warf
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Chatham County Schools
PO Box 128, 369 West St.
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