scoobydoo
04-11-2003, 12:21 PM
hi everyone, i'm new to these forums and fairly new to Linux. I seem to be having the common(?) problem with de-compressing the second stage ramdisk in mandrake, and an unknown error installing EvilE. I have used all 3 sets of CD's to install onto another computer so i am fairly certain that they are burned correctly.
My setup is:
Epox 8kha+ KT266/a
AMD Athlon XP 2000+ (not overclocked, running at 1666mhz[is that my problem??:D])
Maxtor 40g 7200rpm HD
DVD-ROM(also tried it with my CDR drive)
Geforce4 MX440
256MB pc2100 DDR ram
no soundcard with the built-in 82xx sound disabled
one PCI NIC
I have tried everything i know of to get this to work.. i have succesfully installed to this computer using the MDK 9.0/9.1 CD sets once or twice but it was very sporadic and if i was able to get past the ramdisk problem, i would probably have problems installing several important packages (kernel, glibc, xfree86 etc).
the few times i was able to get it completely installed it worked quite well.
The only thing i can think of is to try some different memory.. i have a friend who will let me borrow a few DIMM's so i will probably try that today.
My problem with EvilE is different. i get through the installation, partitioning the hard drive, formatting and mounting. but when it gets to the actual installation it says something about an error trying to change directorys to the actual installation files.. well any help anyone would be able to give will be very appreciated, sorry about the lengthy post :)
My setup is:
Epox 8kha+ KT266/a
AMD Athlon XP 2000+ (not overclocked, running at 1666mhz[is that my problem??:D])
Maxtor 40g 7200rpm HD
DVD-ROM(also tried it with my CDR drive)
Geforce4 MX440
256MB pc2100 DDR ram
no soundcard with the built-in 82xx sound disabled
one PCI NIC
I have tried everything i know of to get this to work.. i have succesfully installed to this computer using the MDK 9.0/9.1 CD sets once or twice but it was very sporadic and if i was able to get past the ramdisk problem, i would probably have problems installing several important packages (kernel, glibc, xfree86 etc).
the few times i was able to get it completely installed it worked quite well.
The only thing i can think of is to try some different memory.. i have a friend who will let me borrow a few DIMM's so i will probably try that today.
My problem with EvilE is different. i get through the installation, partitioning the hard drive, formatting and mounting. but when it gets to the actual installation it says something about an error trying to change directorys to the actual installation files.. well any help anyone would be able to give will be very appreciated, sorry about the lengthy post :)