Registered: Jul 2000
Location: Beatrice, Nebraska
Posts: 18490

Mandrake 7.2 problems

When I try to install Mandrake 7.2, it gets to the part where it says "in second stage install" and then it freezes up at that point. What can I do?

Mandrake is stumped, and has told me to make a floppy and get some information on to the floppy and send it to them so that they can give it to their engineers and they can take a stab at it.

I don't know how to make the floppy. This is what Mandrake says, but I can't make heads or tails of it:

quote:

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Paste the text between the dash lines in a file named "scriptlog".
Copy this file on a floppy.

Start your computer with the first cdrom and press F1
and type:
rescue

When you see the following prompt:
root@rescue #
Enter the following command line:
mount /mnt/floppy
cp /mnt/floppy/scriptlog /
cd /
chmod 777 scriptlog
/scriptlog

Once the script is done, wait the activity stop on the floppy
keep it out from the floppy drive and you can now turn the power off.
Send us the file in the floppy (wihtout scriptlog of course)

**DEBUT**
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#!/bin/bash
echo "This program will backup hardware & software informations in a file"
echo "Press Enter to continue or Ctrl+C for exiting"
read
cd
echo "Saving informations on floppy"
echo " Kernel Logs"
dmesg >/tmp/dmesg
echo " PCI Configuration"
lspci -vv >/tmp/lspcivv
lspci >/tmp/lspci
echo " CPU Informations"
cat /proc/cpuinfo >/tmp/cpuinfo
echo " Product Version"
cat /proc/version >/tmp/product
echo " SCSI Informations"
cat /proc/scsi/scsi >/tmp/scsi 2>/dev/null
echo "Generating Archive"
cd /tmp
cp /tmp/* /mnt/floppy
cd
umount /mnt/floppy
echo " That's all folks"
echo " END / FIN"

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Registered: Jul 2000
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OK. What you posted looks like details for rescuing an already installed system, and not for simply installing the system. The second Stage as I remember it is to do with the ramdisk part. So it may be necessary to make a boot floppy.

This is done by browsing the cd in DOS or a DOS Prompt. If you don;t have Windows installed then create a start up disk from a friends machine.

Navigate to the cd and go int to DOSUTILS folder. IN there you will find a prog called rawwrite.exe . Run this and it should ask for floppies and then make you bootable disks. Check the README first though.

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Registered: Jul 2000
Location: Beatrice, Nebraska
Posts: 18490

It still freezes up with a boot disk.

What the fuck is going on?

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Registered: Nov 2000
Location: UK
Posts: 4736

Unplug one of the cd-rom drives. I honestly think that Mandrake is getting confused by the fact that you have 2 cd-rom drives in your machine.

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Registered: Jul 2000
Location: Beatrice, Nebraska
Posts: 18490

I did that when you first suggested it, macker. Still won't install.

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