Hello
I'm trying to create a Linux server using mandrake 9.1 but have been repeatedly unsuccessful because of crashes during installation, if anyone can offer any help or insight it would be greatly appreciated, thanks.
It seems the installation is a little more stable due to recent help (changing the first hard drive to primary master, and CD drive to secondary master - thanks to pablob and Rundi "linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=94781" (i don't have enough posts to include a url)
The installation gets further now but still crashes; this is what happened last time I tried to install.
I got all the way to the boot loader installation, but after I choose the boot loader options the screen hanged for a while, then it continued to the summary screen where it has now frozen. Everything I can see on the summary screen has been installed except for network/internet which has 'network not installed' highlighted in red.
Notes
* Neither my mouse or my keyboard are responding; the keyboard light is no longer on, but my optical mouse is still glowing, which means it's still getting power. My keyboard and mouse are USB, so could this be the problem?
If my mouse is still getting power then it means the USB ports are
working, so maybe it’s not USB. Could it be the keyboard that’s caused the installation to crash? I choose the US international keyboard because I live in Australia, but I’m not really sure which type it is (never thought it really mattered)
Here are some of my hardware specs
Athlon XP 2000+
Gigabyte GA-7VAXP mobo using the kt400 chipset
512 DDR 333 RAM
Geforce4 MX440
I've got a 10G Maxtor drive that’s about 3-4 years old which I’m using for my Mandrake installation (set as master), a new 80G WDJB which I use for windows (set as slave), and a 40 speed CDROM (set as secondary master)
The CD's I installed from were copied off a friend, so I’m not sure of the integrity. I know you can do a checksum on them using the iso's from the mandrake website but I’m not sure how yet.
I'm going to try to install using some mandrake 9 CD's that I got with a magazine (because I’m pretty confident there intact), & if that doesn't work then I’m going to reinstall and try a PS/2 mouse and keyboard again. I'm hoping its just faulty CD's
If anyone has some helpful insight they'd like to share it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks