Mandrake Installation Travelmate 240!

Beppe83 · 03-10-2004, 10:30 AM

HI!

I'm a newbie to Linux! I have an Acer Travelmate 240 and I wanted to install Linux Mandrake 9.0; well I inserted the CD1 in the CD-ROM drive, set up the CD BOOT from Bios and restarted the machine. I get the first screen where I press <enter> to begin installation and then I get only a black screen...what possibly could be?

Thank you men!

Beppe83 · 03-11-2004, 02:09 AM

No help?

equinox · 03-11-2004, 02:23 AM

how old is the machine?

Beppe83 · 03-11-2004, 03:12 AM

Oh well it's quite new, I bought it in November 2003.

It's a 2.4Ghz Celeron, with 40Gb HDD, DVD ROM/CD-R/RW Writer; it's really strange the problem I get.

equinox · 03-11-2004, 03:25 AM

Mandrake linux 9.0 is pretty old, why not try 9.2 or the new 10.0 release?

Beppe83 · 03-11-2004, 04:53 PM

Oh well, probably I will get Mandrake 9.2 or Fedora Core soon.

Thanx!

duff · 03-18-2004, 04:25 PM

it won't work... i'v been through this with several distros on the same laptop and tried various boot options and the kernel simply won't boot (text, failsafe - you name it). the only distro i could get to boot and install was Suse (currently using Suse 9.0 pro). i may have got slackware to boot and install also but i can't remember. hopefully the 2.6 kernel will not have the same problem!

duff

Beppe83 · 03-18-2004, 04:42 PM

I GOT IT!

Simply I did this: when the graphic interface starts, I press F1. I then press F2 and select one of the alternative kernel by giving the command "alt0" or "alt1" or "alt2"; for now I only tried "alt1" but I think it'll work with other kernels.

I hope this helps!

Beppe