well here's the story : i'm trying to setup mandrake on p3 450mhz 256 mb ram : 2 x 128 gforce2 & bla,bla,bla
first i tried a cd setup (burned the iso's to cd then booted from cd1 and run setup) i got error about
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mandrake does not recognize my cdrom
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& it offered me to use a different setup method (ftp, hd, diskette??)
well i switched the cdrom to LG x52 booted from it & entered the setup...
after that step went ok i came to "install system" where i kept getting
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There was an error installiing packages .... go on anyway?
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i thote "maybe my cd is bad" went to win again copied the whole cd set to a fat32 partition on IDE 1:0 under the folder mandrake (the copy went ok) went back to boot from cd booted mandrake setup told it to get the setup files from the correct hd pointed the dir (it started the "loading to memory") & the setup begon again !
now i get the same error as before
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There was an error installiing packages .... go on anyway?
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the first one by the way is bash...
let me just point that i'm a newbie to linux so don't tell me somthing like
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you need to mount the memory kernel from bit xroing the hdd device & then xray to kde the mask output
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(go easy on me)
i got 3 hdds on my system if that helps:
IDE 0:0 (10 gb | empty | had recent killdisk in preperation for linux warm hands)
IDE 0:1 (12 gb | NTFS | holds ms 2003 with its own MBR & active partition)
IDE 1:0 (6 gb | FAT32 | currently hold mandrake 10.0 setup files & other sh*t)
help, tnx.