Mandrake installation troubles

["Jeff Boes" <jboes@xxxxxxx>]

Boy, this is frustrating. I spent over three hours yesterday trying to
install Linux (Mandrake 7.0) on a P133. I'm not trying to dual-boot or
anything special. Yet every time it gets to the boot loader installation, it
reports "there was a problem" and gives me the "opportunity" to try again. I
tried several times to install it with the custom options, setting up
partitions to my liking, but it wouldn't finish. Finally I gave up and
selected the pre-fab "server" option (because Mandrake seems to imply that
there's something special about the partition named "/boot", but I couldn't
find anything specific), and it still did the same thing.

I also got a failure during the step where it tried to configure the
network. I have a 'no-name-brand' generic 10/100 Ethernet card, and I tried
each and every selection from the list of drivers offered, but the install
never detected the card.


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No, I'm not going to explain it.  If you can't figure it out, you didn't
want to know anyway...  :-)
             -- Larry Wall, 1991
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