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I'm trying to install linux, and I've got the three cd's and the boot floppy. I restart, and boot from the floppy and press enter to begin the installationg, but ...
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- 02-22-2003 #1Just Joined!
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Mandrake - Install fails at an early stage.
I'm trying to install linux, and I've got the three cd's and the boot floppy. I restart, and boot from the floppy and press enter to begin the installationg, but during the text boot-up screen, where it appears to be loading drivers and inspecting my system. At the points where it says:
Partition Check:
hda (insert blinking cursor thing here)
it just freezes up. I waited more than ten minutes and still nothing. Has anyone experienced this before? Can anyone determine the cause of my problems?
- 02-22-2003 #2Linux Guru
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It would appear that either your HDD isn't in the best shape, or you have a broken IDE chipset. I don't really know what to do, though, since it appears to be a hardware fault.
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Arrgh. That's what I was thinking. It's just a chessy old 10 gig seagate drive that I got for frree from someone who was going to toss their computer. I thought it was fine, though, because I seperated all the bad sectors, and it seems to be operating just fine from windows and dos.
- 02-22-2003 #4Linux Guru
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Do you have a slave IDE on the same bus?
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I've got one master, which has got windows 2k on it, and the disk I want to install to is a 10 gig set as a slave. I would assume that the 6 gig is hard drive a, and that's where the operation fails.
- 02-22-2003 #6Linux Guru
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Yeah, that's right. Try setting the 10 GB (I guess that's where you're going to install Linux, right?) as the only drive on that bus and see if it works. Try different master/slave configurations. Sometimes defective hard drives react to that.
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ok then, tanks for the help.
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nope. I'd go to computer fest to buy another drive, but it ended a few days ago. just my luck.
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