junglejuice Posted June 29, 2004 Report Share Posted June 29, 2004 I have just purchased an Acer Aspire 1355 laptop and my problem is that I can't get mandrake to install on it. I have tried 9.0, 9.2, 10ce and 10 full and none of them will install either from cd or dvd internal or external roms. I get the initial screen where it says "f1 for options or enter to install" then it scrolls through the hardware pc bus ide bus etc then it starts the next screen "loading into memory", this is where it stops, the cd drive stops and just sits there. I have also tried fedora and the screen goes all weird and you can't read it. Does anybody have any experience with this or any suggestions? Any help appreciated. Cheers, Junglejuice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidzoo Posted June 29, 2004 Report Share Posted June 29, 2004 When you get to that screen, try pressing F1 and typing linux expert and see if that makes a difference. Other than that, did you check the md5sums of the iso's before you burned them? What speed did you burn them at? Have you tried a lower speed? These are all things that might help you get Mandrake installed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
junglejuice Posted June 29, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 29, 2004 The cds and dvd that i have tried all work on my pc and other pc's so i assume that is not the problem. As for the expert mode what settings should i try? Any suggestions? Cheers, Junglejuice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidzoo Posted June 29, 2004 Report Share Posted June 29, 2004 when you type linux expert, it just starts the installer in expert mode. It also does a bit more hardware probing (useful if you have a usb keyboard/mouse) so it's more likely to work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest vpn Posted June 29, 2004 Report Share Posted June 29, 2004 Try this: After pressing f1, type "vgali noauto" at the boot prompt. [For fedora, type at boot prompt: "linux nofirewire" to prevent the hanging; if that doesnt help, one may have to give "linux nousb nopcmcia noprobe nofirewire" .] This will bypass the hardware detection but the installation will go through and you will have to specify the hardware parameters by later. All the best! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
junglejuice Posted June 29, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 29, 2004 Ahh thats what i like about linux, there is always someone ready to help out. I'll give these a try and see how it goes. Thanks for the tips :D Cheers, Junglejuice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest no0tic Posted September 12, 2004 Report Share Posted September 12, 2004 Ahh thats what i like about linux, there is always someone ready to help out. I'll give these a try and see how it goes. Thanks for the tips :D Cheers, Junglejuice <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I have the aspire 1356 and I installed Mandrake 10.0 starting from the 2nd CD... Booting from the first caused hangs invariably. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
junglejuice Posted December 18, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 18, 2004 Try this: After pressing f1, type "vgali noauto" at the boot prompt. [For fedora, type at boot prompt: "linux nofirewire" to prevent the hanging; if that doesnt help, one may have to give "linux nousb nopcmcia noprobe nofirewire" .] This will bypass the hardware detection but the installation will go through and you will have to specify the hardware parameters by later. All the best! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> How do I get mdk to auto detect usb devices such as external disc drives once mdk is up and running. Using the noauto command allows me to install the os but then when I plug in an external hdd into the usb port nothing happens...... This is most annoying... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
junglejuice Posted December 22, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 22, 2004 I have now tried 10.1ce and 10.1or and still nothing but dramas...... I can get 10.1ce to install with no usb or firewire which is no good and so far I haven't been agle to get 10.1or to install at all, it just gets to the configuration panel and locks up when trying to configure the display. This is very frustrating.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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