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[BART RAFFAELE]

On 11/8/04 2:15 PM, "Michael Holland" <myk at westnet.com.au> wrote:

> 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?
Setting up the printer stage
> 
>> 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????????????
It hangs on the BIOS with initialising Plug and Play Cards....
Card-01 Creative ViBRA16c PnP
> 
>> 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?
No data to be kept
> 
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