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From: Paul-Andr� Gollier
Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 21:39

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Hi,

I'am trying to install Linux for the first time on my PC and so far, no
standard installation package works. I already tried Corel, Madrake 7.2 et
Red Hat 7. Furthermore, with Mandrake, I tried to boot from DVD-ROM, then
from Floppy, then loading the content of the CD on the hard drive and trying
to install with hd.img on a floppy.

In any cases, looking at the message on the screen, everything works fine
until the end of the detection of the hardware then on the Mandrake
ditribution, a last message appear on the screen "in second stage install"
and this meesage remains for hours (last time I tried, I left it a hole
night) ( on the Red Hat 7 ditribution, if I remember well, it a message like
"sbin/loader" could verify if needed.

Does anybody already observed such behaviour, is it not possible to install
Linux on my PC?

Regards

PS. My PC is a compaq with AMD Duron 700MHz, 64Mo RAM, 20 Go Hard drive
(IDE) and a DVD-ROM. The graphic card is NVIDIA RIVA TNT2

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