atevin Posted February 4, 2004 Report Share Posted February 4, 2004 A couple minutes after the installation starts I get a 'I can't access a Mandrake Linux Installation disc in your CDROM drive (TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-1902B). Retry?' message. I have a Dell Latitude CPi A400XT laptop, 5 GB hard drive, 64 MB RAM running Windows 98 I'm a total Linux newbie, have no clue what to do, any suggestions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted February 4, 2004 Report Share Posted February 4, 2004 At the boot, hit F1, type linux noacpi, and try the install like that. I'm moving your post to laptops, since you might get better answers there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atevin Posted February 6, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 6, 2004 I tried that, still got the same message right after it says 'detecting USB devices' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted February 6, 2004 Report Share Posted February 6, 2004 text install linux text noapic ide=nodma vga=normal normal linux noapic ide=nodma vga=normal you could also throw any one of these in there acpi=off acpi=ht acpi=on What version of mandrake? Didn't ML-9.2 get kicked up to 128MB requirement for install? Either way, 64's not much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atevin Posted February 7, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 7, 2004 ah, that might explain it too (9.2, yeh). Brilliant me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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