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Help Getting Mandrake Linux to Load/Install

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1mck:
I got a response from someone on my news server, and I posed the same questions as here, and a guy wrote me this (I don't have a clue what he's talking about, so I need someone to translate this into "Newbie-speak", please and thank you):

You are on the right path. I have found sometimes that harddrake or kudzu hardware detection will cause lockups. kudzu more likely causing it but I
have seen instanses where one or the other will lockup the system on boot.

You may need to boot into single user mode and change the name of the Sys V Statup file /etc/rc5.d/S05kudzu to not start up. to do this you type:

mv /etc/rc5.d/S05kudzu /etc/rc5.d/K05kudzu

What this does is tell the init scripst to not run it in runlevel 5 you may have to do this in rc3.d as well if you are not starting in X. this will stop kudzu from probing the hardware. you can do a similar thing for harddrake if it still does not boot.

Cheers,
Max W. Blackmer, Jr a.k.a. Daemon Watcher
The only sovereign I can allow to rule me is reason.
- Quote from Faith of the Fallen by Terry Goodkind

OOOoooohhhKay....Do I reboot my computer, and then put in the Mandrake Disk #1 in my computer, and then type all that stuff in there some place, and do I re-install everything, AGAIN? This is not easy! I went to the Linksys site, and they are talking about re-compiling the kernel, other stuff, and just going completely way over my head!

Any help will be appreciated, otherwise, I have to wipe everything out, and start fresh with Windoze....Noooooooooooo!

1mck

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