RE: Mandrake installation troubles

["Jeff Boes" <jboes@xxxxxxx>]

> > anything special. Yet every time it gets to the boot loader
> installation, it

I lied. This is a two-hard-drive system. Does that matter?

> Try making a small /boot partition at the very beginning of the disk.

I eventually gave up on the custom install, selected the "server" option
(which does create a "/boot" partition, and does not allow me to make any
choices about the partitions at all), and got the same error.

>
> Also make sure you have LBA turned on in the BIOS, and you have the
> BIOS set to "_NON_ PNP operating system".

Hmm... I'll check that next.

>
> > 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.
>
> Do you have the ethernet card working in Windows (or another OS)?
> If so, look at the hardware settings there and see what driver
> it's using, along with all the port and IRQ settings.

Sigh. Yes, in fact this was working just fine under Win 98. However, once I
clobbered all the partitions during the Mandrake install, I can't get back
into Windows to check this...

Thanks for your help.


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