> Dances With Clouds wrote:
>
> It has been a while since I built a Linux box. I decided to load the
> new Mandrake 8.0 on the second hard drive of an old Win98 box I have.
> I intended to build a dual boot system with Win98 on drive 1 and Linux
> on drive 2. The install progresses just fine through partitioning the
> second drive and defining the mount points for /, /home, etc. The
> install fails however, now the exact message escapes me, with a
> message something like "no basesystem found".
>
> Any advice? I am using a CD created from an image file. It looks
> like all folders and files are present on the CD.
>
> Bob ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) Brown
> http://www.bbbrown.com/
If you made an /etc partition there'll be problems. When linux boots it
only mounts the / partiton first. Not that I know from experience or
anything....hehe. As for during the installation....I'm not sure, but
that might have something to do with it.......hm...what exactly are the
partitions you made?
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