Tovenaar

Hello again. I managed to partly install mandrake 9.2 with a local ftp link. but then the laptop lost its connection with the local ftp server. I tried is a couple of times. Worked quite wel, but I think the connection was bad for some reason. Because the connection failed during the installation, and everytime on a different place in the installation. Anyhow I got really annoyed. I formatted my HD and all 3 CD's on a fat32 partition on the HD. This took 2200 MB of my 3960 MB HD. Leaving little over 1700 MB for mandrake. I installed mandrake from HD install, only resized the root partition, making it bigger and the home share smaller. After the install I imaged the fat32 partition with win98. So now I run win98 and mandrake. Only to run mandrake with a 40MB big Home share. Oh well, at least it is installed and running. Thanks for all the time and advice. Greetings, Tovenaar

Harddisk install is indeed a sollution. but my harddisk is not big enough for the installdisk and the installation. So when I copy the CD to my harddrive and startup with a bootdisk the installation doesn't fit on my harddrive.

hi people, After the weekend I'm back with the report. I tried both sollutions mentioned by Ixthusdan and pmpatrick. Both failed. Then I reburned at a lower speed just like LiquidZoo said. But again no success. I have no broadband available so using ftp install though internet is going to take VERY long.... no option. So back to teh beginning. Still trying to get up the ftp local server (almost there). Thanks for all suggestions. Greetings, Tovenaar

Hello again, I consulted some people I accedently ran into about installing through network. I need to install ftp-server on my winXP desktop to make it accesable for the laptop to see my desktop. Then I can use the ftp-protocol to install mandrake. So I'm going to try that also if the suggestions on the CD-ROM drive don't work. Thanks again for your time. Ill be back with my report. Greetings, Tovenaar

Thanks for all the responses. I'll try all the sollutions you suggested. I'll be back with my results. Anyway. I tried something else last night. I will not give up on this. So I accepted it would not install through my cd-rom drive of my laptop (for the time being). I was reading the install guides on the cd's and I found out I could install Mandrake over network. My laptop has a Xircom network pcmcia card and my desktop has a realtek networkcard and I have a cross-cable. I have been playing some games over my 1-1 network with my laptop and my desktop under winXP(deskto) and win98(laptop) and this worked smoothly. So why not try and install it over the network. Setup: laptop - pcmciacard Xircom destkop - PCIcard Realtek cross-cable desktop os - winXP laptop os - use the pcmcia.img disk from CD1(mandrake) So WinXp is fully booted. CD1(mandrake) is located in my CD writer in my desktop pc. Forces an IPadres: 10.1.1.1 , name: COMPUTER My partition information: 1 HD of 30 GB 4 partitions c: 6 GB d: 6 GB e: 7 GB f: 11 GB 2 CD drives, 1 DVD and one writer. THe DVD is G: and the writer is H:. So the CD is in the H: drive. I booted the laptop with the imaged floppy. All is well. pcmcia is being activated. Then I get to choose the way I want to install mandrake. options: NFS FTP HTTP CD-ROM Harddrive Now, which option should I use to install over my locall network? I tried the first 3 options. I will have to give the laptop an IPadres: 10.1.1.2 DNS 10.1.1.1 Default gateway 10.1.1.1 submask 255.255.255.0 . Then I get the msg "bringing up network". When this dissappears it takes a long time before the next msg come onscreen. This usually is a msg with something like "could not guess host, please enter hostname or IPadres and domainname" or "could not guess host, please enter hostname and the directory of teh mandrake installation". I can ping from my winXp to 10.1.1.2 so the network works. I just cannot give the mandrake installation the right infomation to find CD1 in mijn desktop pc in the CDwriter(H:). What option should I use for installation and what info should I give to get the laptop to understand where CD1 is located? Thanks for your time? Greetings, Tovenaar

Hello all, I'm new to linux. I got interested in an alternative operating system due to a free linux cd (Knoppix). I talked to a friend about this and he uses mandrake 9.2 . So I copied his cd's and wanted to install it on my old laptop to see what it could do. laptop specs: HP Omnibook 2100 intel pentuim I 266 Mhz 96 MB RAM 4,3 GB HD 2MB neomagic videocard Toshiba CD-ROM drive Floppy drive I only have one slot for either a CD-ROM drive of Floppy drive. So I putted in teh CD-Rom drive, changed the bios to make the drive bootable and putted in the first CD of mandrake 9.2 . The CD boots. So that works. I see the first blue screen where I can either press <enter> to install of <F1> for extra option. I pressed <enter>. Then mandrake install check numberous hardware items. Then I get a black screen with below the text"press <alt>+<F1> for here <alt>+<f3> ofr kernel msg (or something). In the middle of teh screen is a blue rectangle with text in it. It states what it is doing. After this he states in the blue box "trying to access mandrake installation". After 20 sec there is an error: "cannot access the mandrake installation", retry, back, no. With restry the same msg comes onscreen. With back and no you will get in a box with the question what scsi device it shoud check, with al list of all mods to choose from. none work. The strange thing is the cd of mandrake works perfectly on my desktop. Also my laptop had never before problems with the CD-ROM drive. I can still boot from the win98 CD-ROm or the Knoppix CD-ROM. What is the problem? What am I doing wrong? (I even downloaded the iso's again, checked them, burned them and they work on my desktop pc but still the same problem on my laptop.) Greetings and thanks, Tovenaar