[plug] New to the list& Linux+Help

[Michael Holland]

On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, BART RAFFAELE wrote:

> I have taken the plunge to install Mandrake 10.00
> Over my pc windows 98 only to be con fronted with a blackout when I was so
> close to finishing my install.

What point were you at? How much configuration?

> So when I switch on my PC it says initialising Plug and Play Cards....
> Card-01 Creative ViBRA16c PnP.

Isn't that normal for the BIOS to do?  Do you see a LILO prompt?
What is the problem????????????

> Can any one help! can I boot from the cd's to try an install it again.

You could, but it will be very frustrating if the same happens again.
At what point did you loose the display? Trying to configure X-windows?

> In the beginning of install I told it to Format the HD.

So no data on there that you wanted to keep?

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