Guest cwbl1200 Posted November 17, 2002 Report Share Posted November 17, 2002 I have a problem installing Mandrake Linux 9.0. When installing the packages, it stops there, but the hdd light is still on. I read some other posts and they said something about turning "UMDA" off in the BIOS. Could any1 show me how to do this? I'm a newbie at this, so be detailed :) I'm not sure if THIS is the solution to my problem (by turning umda off) but I'll give it a try. If you know a definate solution to this problem, then please tell me and show me, Thanks!! I have a: AMD chipset Gigabyte mboard AMD 1ghz Maxtor 17gb hdd 128 ddr sdram NIC card Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aRTee Posted November 18, 2002 Report Share Posted November 18, 2002 Refer to your motherboard manual for the exact keys and looks of the bios; normally, you'd do something as follows: boot the pc, during the first screen you get to see, press the <delete> key. (could be another key, sometimes F2 or so) Then you get into the bios, you can use the arrow keys to navigate. Find the udma settings, and switch them off if you like. Personally, I think it's probably something else, but you never know. Now that you are there, you may want to do the following: - set the option: PnP OS (plug and play OS) to NO - Shadow video bios --> NO - Boot virus protection --> NO From the Mandrake install guide: If you want to have your parallel port printer (locally connected) properly detected, make sure that the parallel port mode is set to ECP+EPP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest cwbl1200 Posted November 19, 2002 Report Share Posted November 19, 2002 Personally, I think it's probably something else, but you never know. Can you tell me what you think is wrong, I don't care if it doesn't really work, but I'll consider your suggestions. Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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