install problems

[kgleason at ma.ultranet.com (Kevin M. Gleason)]

Dan,

I had a similar problem when I tried to install 6.1 on a friend's
laptop. Seems the problem was with a 'supported mouse pad' (scratchpad)
that the install didn't recognize so I installed 6.0 then did an upgrade
to 6.1 - that worked ok. I think that problem was 6.1 tries to install
i/o drivers at the start of the install while 6.0 installed them at the
end. Between the two methods I got a 'happy dual boot system' that
loaded into Linux.

Kevin

dan moylan wrote:

> tried installing RH6.1 from cdrom on system and got dumped
> "exception occured: file /usr/bin/anaconda" with some other
> references to python.  we'll let that go as that cdrom failed
> to install properly on my toshiba laptop as well, possibly
> a faulty cdrom disk (though it did install on a thinkpad 760ED).
>
> tried installing RH5.2 and got all the way through, telling it
> to install the boot loader in /dev/hda master boot record.
> when i tried to boot, got error "disk boot failure, insert system
> disk and press enter".  using the boot disk made at installation
> the system came up satisfactorally.
>
> hda previously had a 200MB dos partition, a 300MB ext2 partition,
> and 30MB swap, and used loadlin to boot from a config.sys menu,
> and ran RH5.2.
>
> system configuration:
>         - pentium 60MHz 40MB ram (1994)
>         - hda 530MB connor
>         - hdb 1.7MB western digital (last 100MB swap)
>         - adaptec 1542 scsi
>         - scd0 toshiba 2x scsi cdrom
>
> what can i do to get it to boot from the hard disk?  any help would
> be appreciated.
>
> dan
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