Re: Cannot complete install. Locking up.

[Owen Davies <owend jps net>]

Rik Thomas wrote:
> You did not however go into detail about your partitioning?  Do you have a
> partition (unformatted) set aside for your install of Linux?  It sounds
> like you are installing or trying to install to your existing
> partition...is that true?  Do you get to the point where you select
> packages?  or is this the initial boot from the first disk?

Hmm I thought I was farily specific when I said:

>>computer reboots before it can complete the installation.  I get the
>>boot prompt, then initrd.img (followed by dots) then vmlinuz (with dots)
>>then a screen of text which pops up too quickly to read after which it
>>immediately reboots.

this is on the very first boot disk.  The only key I hit was ENTER at
the boot: prompt, after which I get the text I mentioned above and then
a reboot before I get any other prompts or choices.

As far as the partitioning it is a 6.4 gig drive with only one FAT16
partition of 2 gigs.  The other 4.4 gigs is not partitioned.  I had
hoped that the install would allow me to make the rest of the drive into
one or two linux partitons.  I was planing on instaling LILO on the
FAT16 partition to allow me the choice between a linux and win95 boot.

Thanks.....
Owen Davies