Installing Mandrake 7.2

[Gilles Lenfant]

Hmmm...

There's an alt.os.linux.mandrake newsgroup for this kind of post.

<banksam at swanhill.net.au> a écrit dans le message news:
3a786a5a.162938 at news.ruralnet.net.au...
> When installing it crashed at the stage of making a boot floppy.  This
> happened several times so then we tried a text install and skipped the
> floppy.  That worked.  Then we tried making the floppy from within
> Linux.  That crashed.  We tried formatting a floppy.  That worked ok.
> Then we tried making a boot disk again.  The system crashed.  So we
> tried making a boot disk manually with
>
> dd if=/boot/vmlinuz2.2....  of=dev/fd0 bs=8192
>
> I know this works.  I've done it before.  But the system I am talking
> about crashed and then wouldn't reboot.
>
> Has anyone else had similar problems?  Has anyone found a solution??
>
> Arthur