Greetings

Well, I just got the new Mandrake 9.2, and I want to install it over my current Red Hat 9.0 installation. However, I have a problem: after the installation begins, it fails. It gets to the stage where it says:

"Detecting USB Devices"

Then it says:

"Error
Could not uncompress second-stage ramdisk. This is probably a hardware error while reading the data (this may be caused by a hardware failure or a Linux kernel bug)"

Then, a black screen comes up with the words:

"error in exec of stage 2 :-(
trying to execute '/usr/bin/runinstall2 from the installation volume, the following fatal error occured:
FATAL ERROR IN STAGE 1:I/O ERROR

I can't recover from this
You may reboot your system"

(I handwrote all this so a few words may be wrong)....

Anyways, I had Red Hat already installed fine, why does Mandrake not like my setup? I have a Pentium 4 1.7ghz, with Windows XP on a NTFS partition, a swap partition for Linux, a ext.3 partition for Linux, and a fat32 partition for shared files.

Phew

Can anyone help?

Where'd you get the new Mandrake 9.2 from? According to Mandrake's homepage, the latest and greatest OFFICIAL release is still 9.1

You might consider using the latest stable version, and if you are worried about not having the latest and greatest packages, after the install you can setup your upgrade/update mirrors to a cooker mirror and head on up to bleeding edge

Moving to Mandrake Forum

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Just as a tentative suggestion and I have no way of knowing whether it would work....

I was suffering with the same error as yourself for 4 days. Then....

Turned my attention to installing Redhat 9 instead due to putting it down to something wrong with the Mdk install. However, I could not get to an install screen with RH either due to a "Could not open root device" error. Well this could be to bad ram possibily and I have been stuck for 2 days.

Suddenly, following the most obvious on screen instructions I stuck in linux mem=256M (actually reflecting my memory capacity) and lo and behold the install screen for RH came up!!

Not suggesting anyone changes to RH but try the above to see waht happens!!

Regards

I tried to install Mandrake 9.2 RC 1 on a 486 Intel machine but repeatedly ran into the same problem regarding a missing package. I don't know the name of the package since the installer didn't specify it. I tried installing with danish language support, then english, but both failed. Then I tried the minimum install (without WineX and documentation), but that failed too. The harddisk was formatted and mounted as "/".
Does Mandrake 9.2 work with 486 processors or what else am I doing wrong? I'm currently downloading Mandrake 9.1 to see if that also fails. HELP!

snowflake, should have started a new thread for this question. if you notice that the mandrake disks are labled MandrakeLinux-9.2rc1-CD1.i586.iso. the 586 part answers your question. you need atleast a pentium level cpu for mandrake. go for another distribution for a 486 processor. cheers.

j_bone, this like http://doc.mandrakelinux.com/Mandrak...1.html#dx-help yields this for info... noauto: in some rare cases, your PC may appear to freeze or lock-up during the hardware detection phase. If that happens, then adding the word noauto as a parameter will tell the install program to bypass hardware detection. Because DrakX will not scan for hardware, you will need to manually specify hardware parameters later in the installation. The noauto parameter can be added to the previous modes, so you may end up specifying:

cheers

Thanks iggy_mon
I know about the 486 problem now (doh!). What distributions with KDE can run on a 486 computer?

Slackware, Gentoo, Debian, Redhat, SuSE (?)...

www.distrowatch.com

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