pimpmaster
08-04-2002, 01:14 PM
OK, so Iīm a newbie at this....
I have a notebook (P133 with 8 MB RAM and 1 GB HD) and Iīve been redommended to try out Mandrake, which should be easy to install.
I have the installation-CD (ver 8.2). I have made a bootdisk (read that in the manual on the CD). OK, here we go.
I boot from the floppy.... no problem. I get to the page where I can choose "Enter" or "F1". I choose F1. The next screen gives me the possibility to choose from vgalo, text, linux or expert. I choose text, with regard to my computers rather weak capacity.
The floppy spins.....
Loading cdrom.rdz...........
Loading vmlinuz..........
The floppy stops (probably finished with itīs work).
I get a black textscreen with blue stripes up and down. 2 seconds later the screen scrolls down.....
The lower blue stripe reads
<Alt-F1> for here, <Alt-F3> to see the logs, <Alt-F4> for kernel
Immediately after "kernel" I get the following message:
"msginstall exited abnormally :-( -- received signal 9"
"you may safely reboot your system"
Thatīs it. Iīm stuck. To give you some extra information I will not type Alt-F4, which gives me the following:
<5>RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
<4>Uncompressing............................done.
<4>Freeing initrd memory: 595k freed
<4>VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
<5>__alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0)
<4>VM: killing process stage1
Thatīs it folks! Does anyone have any suggestion to what I should do? Perhaps try another distro? Go with an old Windows-version?
I have a notebook (P133 with 8 MB RAM and 1 GB HD) and Iīve been redommended to try out Mandrake, which should be easy to install.
I have the installation-CD (ver 8.2). I have made a bootdisk (read that in the manual on the CD). OK, here we go.
I boot from the floppy.... no problem. I get to the page where I can choose "Enter" or "F1". I choose F1. The next screen gives me the possibility to choose from vgalo, text, linux or expert. I choose text, with regard to my computers rather weak capacity.
The floppy spins.....
Loading cdrom.rdz...........
Loading vmlinuz..........
The floppy stops (probably finished with itīs work).
I get a black textscreen with blue stripes up and down. 2 seconds later the screen scrolls down.....
The lower blue stripe reads
<Alt-F1> for here, <Alt-F3> to see the logs, <Alt-F4> for kernel
Immediately after "kernel" I get the following message:
"msginstall exited abnormally :-( -- received signal 9"
"you may safely reboot your system"
Thatīs it. Iīm stuck. To give you some extra information I will not type Alt-F4, which gives me the following:
<5>RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
<4>Uncompressing............................done.
<4>Freeing initrd memory: 595k freed
<4>VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
<5>__alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0)
<4>VM: killing process stage1
Thatīs it folks! Does anyone have any suggestion to what I should do? Perhaps try another distro? Go with an old Windows-version?