Guest fic Posted December 26, 2009 Report Share Posted December 26, 2009 Acer Aspire Intel quad core 4gb ram 600 gb sata + 1 tb sata hd usb mouse & keyboard (both Microsoft) usb HP scanner when I boot from the mandriva 2001 dvd it loads fine, I hit enter to "start installation" and it goes to the installation screen to pick the language etc. From then on, I can't make a choice. Both keyboard and mouse don't work no more. I guess it doesn't like my pc for some strange reason? Any suggestion how to resolve this problem are ver welcome? tya, f. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted December 26, 2009 Report Share Posted December 26, 2009 Such things are often the result of a bad burn. Try burning a new DVD at a slower speed or with a different brand disk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AussieJohn Posted December 27, 2009 Report Share Posted December 27, 2009 (edited) A very warm welcome to MUB. I know you will like it here. If you are installing 2001 then the problem is likely due to your sata hard drives because back then, sata drives were not around and so the necessary driver was not yet in the kernel. I think you will find that if you install say Mandriva 2008.1 onwards you will be fine. Why not install the latest Mandriva 2010 ???. Cheers. John. Please disregard my advice. Due to your mistype of your os as 2001 and my not actually noticing your heading as 2010, my suggestion is irrelavent. JB Edited December 27, 2009 by AussieJohn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Alfonso Crawford Posted May 3, 2010 Report Share Posted May 3, 2010 I have a similar sort of problem: my Eee PC 1201HAB will freeze up at seemingly random points, though. I've got a few other brands of CD-R, and another program for burning ISOs. Would the age of my external optical drive be significant, especially if it's about 10 years old or so? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted May 4, 2010 Report Share Posted May 4, 2010 Welcome to the MUB B) Would the age of my external optical drive be significant, especially if it's about 10 years old or so? Yes, I would think so. Are you installing 2010.0 or 2010.1? The second is still in beta (I think) and so could be a problematic install. It would be better to install 2010.0. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted May 4, 2010 Report Share Posted May 4, 2010 It sure is possible, older hardware would become deprecated and unsupported at some point. Whilst some/most might work, you'll get some that doesn't too :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Alfonso Crawford Posted May 4, 2010 Report Share Posted May 4, 2010 I'm using 2010.0, if the boot-text is to be believed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted May 5, 2010 Report Share Posted May 5, 2010 OK, so it is latest stable release. I wouldn't advise installing BETA version unless you don't mind if your system might break randomly with certain things not working for a while until an update is released, or that something might not actually work at all. I'd advise waiting until it's released stably in the next couple of months. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Alfonso Crawford Posted May 6, 2010 Report Share Posted May 6, 2010 (edited) Now I'm confused! Dusting off my old laptop and installing Ubuntu 9.10, I was finally able to make a Mandriva-flash. I'm encountering the same problems I did with the CD, so I'm left wondering if something deep within the netbook has been corrupted? I can still enter the BIOS-menu and behave within it normally, so I don't think it's what's broken. UPDATE: The RAM was corrupt. Edited May 15, 2010 by Alfonso Crawford Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kfoss Posted July 27, 2010 Report Share Posted July 27, 2010 It's been a while since I've posted, but as I recently started a process of upgrading my computer and trying to install 2010.0 on my new PC just like the old one, I ran into a number of these similar install problems. First of all, I did have some problems with using my original 2010.0 DVD which had a number of small scratches from normal wear and tear. I made a new DVD burned slowly to do the install. I was able to make it further through the process but still failed to make it far. In the end I had luck by setting the kernel option of "no apic" during the initial choice screen for the install. I believe you need to press F5 or F6 and then select the "no apic" option. Some software/hardware configurations still have issues with automatic interrupt setting. Once the install was done, I left the bootloader at the default which has APIC enabled and everything works. May want to give this a try if burning a new copy doesn't work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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