[plug] MDK 10 on HP NX9010

[Dave Dartnall]

On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 12:23 am, Kai wrote:
> James Budworth wrote:
> > On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Kai wrote:
> >>Hi guys and girls,
> >>
> >>I bought an HP Compaq NX9010
> >>(http://www.ht.com.au/Scripts/xworks.exe?PART:M1158#Tof) a few weeks ago
> >>and I dropped into Linux IT and bought Mdk 10 Official.
> >>
> >>Tried installing Mdk 10 Official but the installer hangs just after the
> >>initialisation screen, I've heard there might be a glitch with the first
> >>install CD so I tried CD 2 and after a bit of waiting and some expected
> >>noise from CD/DVD I get the message "I can't access a Mandrake Linux
> >>Installation Disk in your CDROM Drive (_NEC DVD+RW _ND-5100). Retry ?"
> >>
> >>I google'd a bit and found a page on someone who tried installing Red
> >>Hat 9 and who had problems with it, one of their many suggestions is to
> >>use "linux nousb nopcmcia noprobe nofirewire" at the boot:- prompt, but
> >>that didn't do any good.
> >>
> >>If anyone has any suggestions or pages they recommend I read about the
> >>problem, please let me know
> >>
> >>Thanks
> >>Kai

I have an official 10.0 set that you can borrow if you like. I live in 
Dianella phone 9276 3295. I'm a dialup subscriber and it might be quicker if 
you phone if you think the originals would be any help.
regards
Dave Dartnall