Help with a Mandrake install (Serious Problem)

[jhollo00]

I get through all of the setup params fine but the installation locks up while files from the install are being loaded to the harddrive everytime with the gui install. what can i do to fix this. thanks,

PS - I also iniciate the install with
"linux mem=128M" because the install doesn't pick up the correct amount of RAM.

Please help,

Jeff

[njcajun]

Hey man,

I don't know exactly what the issue is here - but you can change the RAM after the install easy enough - don't mess with it till later and eliminate that as the issue...

Do you have enough room for the install you're doing? Did you make your partitions correctly and appropriately for the install? For a server install of RedHat, the '/' partition needs to be something like 1.6GB or something like that.

Aside from that I suppose there's the obvious possibility of a bad disk, but I dunno. Try following the install procedure straight out of the manual. Maybe the INSTALLER can only use 64MB RAM...?

Good luck

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...meanwhile, I remain...
...The RedHatted Stepchild...

[DodgeTrucs]

Are you sure its frozen, I ave installed Mandrake a few times and there are points where it looks like its stopped, check the hdd activity lights and mouse movement. I freaked out and powered it off once thinking it had frozen, the next time I gave it about 20 mins after it appeared to have stopped and it finally continued on.

[ds801]

A couple of questions, which version of Mandrake are you using, and what type of cpu do you have? Did you download the files yourself, or did you buy the cd?

Also, if you list the hardware you have, maybe someone can tell you if there's a known incompatability.

[jhollo00]

alright,
I have an AMD athlon 700 and 196 of Ram with voodoo3 pci. I downloaded the install and expansion for the latest version of Mandrake and the install works on one of other computers with intel chip. The hard drive light goes solid after it starts looking for packages and mouse goes dead with GUI install. it will install text mode but will not start after install. I have no idea what to do next. it is really confusing me and ticking me off. after 10 min of lock condition, the lights (all but power) go off and nothing happens. if i don't specify memory on setup start, i don't get the GUI interface. it only finds 16M of ram. What do i do!!!!!!!!

thanks again,
jeff

[atl2ptown]

there is definitely a problem if you have 192 megs of ram and it only reads 16. the mandrake install guide says that it will many times be wrong, but by no more than 64 mb.

[per©oDåN]

Other than that (the possible memory problem), Drake might not be reading your CD-ROM (or the media)...

<assuming you are attempting to pull the files from a CD-ROM>

I am at the same point right now: Drake won't read the install media (a Memorex High Capacity CD-R @ 700MB) from 2 out of the 3 CD-ROM drives I have tried so far...

The reason your hard disk light might be lit/solid is that your CD-ROM drive is on the same (IDE) bus as your Hard disk. I had it set up the same way, then moved the CD-ROM to secondary master and this didn't help (not that I thought it would).

The light just stays on while Mandrake is trying to "Initialize" the CD-ROM drive.

[ruccus]

I too am having a problem installing 7.2 to my system. I did a new topic post labeled 'linux 7.2 won't install' or something like that. I am wondering if the the speed of the cdrom may have something to do with the problem. I have a 48x creative labs cdrom. Comments welcome

[UncleMonty]

That sounds a lot like the installation troubles I've been having with 7.2!
Some of the error messages I've been seeing:
An error occurred: No hdlist.cz found.

Can't remove directory /mnt/tmp/headers, no such file or directory.

package file missing header

There was an error installing packages: mandrake-release-7.2-1mdk, rmt-0.4b19-2mdk, procmail-3.14-3mdk, sash-3.4-4mdk

At the moment I am following up a hunch, I am using an AMD K6-2 / 500mhz CPU,and am trying a series of installations in text mode to reduce the load on the system.

It seems less shaky if I underclock the CPU as well, running it at only 200Mhz during these installation tests.

Later addendum: 12/6/00

No-Go! I went back to Red Hat 6.2, which installs and runs without trouble on my system. Too bad, Mandrake 7.2 has some nice features.



[This message has been edited by UncleMonty (edited 06 December 2000).]