mandrake linux 10.0 setup terror :shock:

[hq4ever]

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

mandrake does not recognize my cdrom

& 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

There was an error installiing packages .... go on anyway?

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

There was an error installiing packages .... go on anyway?

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

you need to mount the memory kernel from bit xroing the hdd device & then xray to kde the mask output

(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.

[ooop]

firstly of all...

try "install system -v" or "install system --verbose"
because it might give you a litlle more specific errors...

(I don't know if theyll work since I don't use mandrake)

if they do,
post the output here and we'll have a look =)

/ooop

[hq4ever]

im sorry if this sounds too dum, but im new to linux!

how can i invoke the setup procedure using -v (verbose)
if i'm doing a cd boot which gets me stright into the visual setup screen (no cmd interface) ?

[hq4ever]

a little later i've returned to the package selection screen, unchecked all the packages & seleceted "truly minimal install (especially no urpmi)" still the same error

There was an error installing packages:
bash-2.05b-16mdk.i586
Go on anyway?

[ooop]

Hmmm, are you sure there is nothing wrong with the installation files you downloaded?

[hq4ever]

Hmmm, are you sure there is nothing wrong with the installation files you downloaded?

well you tell me : i've downloaded using BitTorrent - meaning it passed hashing check, i burned the iso - no error, then i copied the cd to the hdd - no error there too !

no i don't think i have problem with my setup files

what i do sure of is that morphy(laws) is demonstration his power again[/b]

[ooop]

hmh, have you partitioned your linux harddrive?
because before installing any packages, you probably need to partition it to ext3....but maybe the autoinstaller does that for you, I am not sure...

a "normal" linux set up looks like this

1 ) an ext3 partition for / (which should be at least a few gigs)
2 ) a swap partition so you can use swap (the type is actually called swap)
3 ) optionally a partition that needn't be very big(50 Mb maybe) for your bootfiles (I'd use ext3 here to)
4 ) optionally separate partitions for /home, /opt, /usr and so on

the first two are the only ones you "need", but many people find it safer to have a /boot partition as well (#3). If you don't do any of the optional partitions, those directories will end up on the / partition (1).

My tip is, check if your linux-partition is formatted (using either a LiveCD or a boot disk, or any linux-cdrom that you can boot and start a linux system from), and if it isn't, do some quick reading on how to smartly partition/format it.


If it is formatted however, it gets a little trickier, because then I don't see why you get installation errors when booting from cd.
No additional weird startup messages you would like to inform the board of ???


Good Luck for now

/ooop

[hq4ever]

belive me i don't know what i've done right, but it worked !

after i forcly reboot the system & booted from the cd once again i saw that the setup wizard created 3 partition on device hda (IDE 0:0)
hda1, Type: Journalised FS : ext3, 5.4GB, mount point /
hda5, Type: Linux Swap, 499MB
hda6, Type: Journalised FS : ext3, 3.3GB, mount point /

the changes i made are:

in security administrator hq4ever [insted of hq4ever@myMailserver.com]

format & mount the formaly wizard created partitions as '\' & '\usr'
(when i tried to unmounth it wouldn't let me)

change the cd drive to LG CRD-8522B (Not affected according to LG)

i guess that when i used the mandrake setup it did created the partition but wouldn't format them (or something), anyway now i'm flying on linux !!!!

my first time wowwwwwwww is that cool or what ?

thnx for the help.

[ooop]

coooongratulations dood.

Welcome to the wonderful world of Linux Computing =)