problem with Mandrake 9.1 Install on my old 300mhz celeron pc

FutureEX · 10-19-2003, 02:52 AM

I installed Mandrake on my 2.4Ghz Intel P4 (i686) Dell Dimension 8250. And it works fine.

Mandrake 9.1 is for i586 so i guess it should work on my

300Mhz Celeron
224MB Ram
13gb HD
cd-rom - primary boot, then floppy, then IDE
cd-rw
and that's about it....

but it doesn't

I don't know y but it doesn't have the graphical displays when installing... just a lite green screen and it stays there

i dunno y.

the cd works on my dell perfectly... it doesn't on my Celeron...
does it have something to do with the bios ? ... anything i should enable / disable... the mandrake site didn't help on this...

thx in advance

michaelk · 10-20-2003, 05:09 PM

What kind of video card do you have? Did you try text install mode?

FutureEX · 10-20-2003, 05:56 PM

my video card is a Integrated 2MB chip on the mother board :S it sux i know :S

how do u get in the text mode?

the option for it never came up....

michaelk · 10-20-2003, 06:05 PM

Hmm.. Nothing like this?
http://doc.mandrakelinux.com/Mandrak...l/ch03s01.html

Might need to create an older boot floppy disk
http://doc.mandrakelinux.com/Mandrak...html#id2888860

FutureEX · 10-20-2003, 06:37 PM

the "Figure 3.1. Very First Installation Welcome Screen"
never came up on my Celeron... it skiped that and went into loading stuff :S

but it did show up on my DELL :P

but i did install from the floppy

Here's what happened when i try to install it...

Floppy loads... finishes...
[suppose to show that first install thingy here]
Loads up the files from the cd... finishes...
Stage 2 starts
Probing serial ports
Loads up a checkered B&W screen
[suppose to load up into the graphical installation here]
instead it loads a lite green screen.... mandrake won't answer this question for some reason