Q: I dled the isos, checksum good. Burned with Nero CD 24x.
Every time I try to boot from the CD and install, I keep getting hangs.
First couple of tries, it would hang right after me questions, I have that mouse. The mouse works fine to select a mouse. I have a USB IntelliMouse Optical, but I tried choosing Explorer MS, Wheel mouse, generic 2-button. Each time, the system would hang. I even tried to select None, and it still hung. Actually, now that I think about it, it seems as if there was a time when the mouse pointer froze while just to move. I had not even clicked yet.
I had him hanging after selecting English as language.
And times, it made it past the mouse selection (although I lost the mouse after selecting the mouse and it lasted about 3 minutes before it went to the partitioning section). So I used the arrow keys and space to use the selected partition. Once I said OK, it hung again. Or at least not for 10 minutes before I it.
I slain him running:
Abit KR7A-Raid
XP 977 503 512 1700 MB Crucial PC2100
Cendyne Lightning CDR (Lite-On)
WD 800JB
MS Intellimouse Optical
Gainward GF3 Ti200
Currently have Win98 and WinXP dual boot with 10G free space for Mandrake (or another distro if I can not get this thing to install)
Any ideas about things to try would great.
Thanks
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Re:Thanks for the tips guys.
But before I went home, I was looking into some of the other distros, and Gentoo looked pretty cool. So I decided to hold off on Mandrake and give Gentoo a try.
So far, so good.
I'm building the system from the stage 1 tarball. Things are going smooth so far. Started the bootstrap script before going to bed last night (supposedly takes a couple of hours). Then started the "emerge system" this morning before going to work. I'm still not clear on what each step is really doing, but building everything from source definitely has more geek factor to it.
I still may try installing Mandrake at some point, so thanks for the tips.
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Re:I doubt this helps – other than as maybe another hint to try a ps2 mouse…
I'm using Mandrake 9.1 and I've had some problems with my optical USB scroll mouse. Every so often, it will just freeze and the only way to fix it is to reboot. Sounds like a similar problem. Maybe Manny doesn't like USB mice???
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Re:Maybe I'll try the ps2 mouse first, and if that doesn't work, i'll try a slower burn and see what happens.
Thanks for the ideas, I'll let you know results later.
Assuming I don't hose my 98 and XP installs that is.
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Re:Hmm, Mandrake 9's installer is usually pretty stable. I've noticed that Mandrake ISOs are unusually difficult for most cd burners to get right, which is why I burn mine at 2x and I've never had a problem
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Re:Knoppix/Debian is about as easy as it gets when using Linux.
It runs off the CD drive, albeit slowly. To get the max out of a distro like that I recommend a HD install and you've got the empty partition for it.
You've got some experience multi-booting so set up of the bootloader shouldn't be a problem. Once you get it installed you've got a Knoppix/Debian system and all that that means.
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Re:I'm sure I've got one around somewhere, so I'll give that a shot.
How do those others compare to Mandrake.
I've had a dual boot with multiple versions of RH and Mandrake 7 in the past. But I still never spent much time with them, so I'm basically a linux newb and looking for a fairly user-friendly distro.
EDIT: this will be a triple-boot, I've already got 98 and XP running and left 10gigs free for linux.
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Re:If you've got an older regular PS-2 style mouse give the install another shot with the old mouse.
On my last Mandy install, 9.0, I saw some real weird stuff happen when selected anything other than PS/2. Once you get Mandy installed you can edit /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 to make the newer mouse work.
If you can't make Mandy work for some reason give Knoppix/Debian a try. I've got a Logitech optical scroller and Knoppix picks it up on boot. If you like running Knoppix off the CD you can always do a HD install later.
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