[plug] Mandrake 10.0

[Ian Sherriffs]

Many thanks to Cameron and Denis Brown.  I acquired a Celeron 466 with 128MB
RAM, and all four disks installed as stand alone operating system without
any problem, except for internet connection to do later.  Will play with it
for a week or two first.   Very slow, so will probably need more RAM.

Ian Sherriffs

----- Original Message -----
From: "Denis Brown" <dsbrown at cyllene.uwa.edu.au>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Friday, May 28, 2004 11:33 PM
Subject: Re: [plug] Mandrake 10.0


> Hello, Ian.
>
> On Fri, 28 May 2004, Ian Sherriffs wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> there.   I have tried to boot from Disk 1 and Disc 2, but nothing
> happens, and eventually Windows starts up again.  So I made the special
> Mandrake boot floppy, and this works, but when it finishes I get a screen
> that says 'Error:    No CDROM device found' .  When I hit OK (ENTER) it
> reads 'Please Insert the Additional Drivers floppy'.   Hit OK again, and
> get a list of things to look for, but again get 'No CDROM device found'.
> >
> I see that Cameron has suggested things to try and hopefully those tips
> will get you under way.   Just in case not...  I had similar problems with
> a recent Gentoo installation.   The trick turned out to be an option at
> boot time, for the installation CD.   My critical boot option was
> "ide=nodma" which made the hardware behave correctly.   Of course you may
> have different boot options.   In the Gentoo case it was "gentoo
> ide=nodma" typed in response to the boot: prompt (but without the ""
> marks).   Like Gentoo, Debian offered a variety of kernels (eg compact,
> vanilla) plus boot-time options.
>
> Question... do you get a "boot:" prompt from the installation CD?   If so,
> is there any additional text inviting you to press, for example, F1 for a
> help or options menu, or F2, F3, etc for additional options?   Sometimes
> (Gentoo & Debian, maybe Mandrake too) you just have to press any key, for
> example the space-bar, for the auto-boot option to turn off, allowing you
> more time to think/plan/experiment.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Denis
>
>
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