The drives are jumpered as Master and Slave and cabled as they should be? If you reverse the cables what happens? Sam. Quoting Randy Clarksean <rclark at lakesplus.com>: > Ok ... I have just purchased an Iwill DP533-S dual Xeon Motherboard and 2 2.4 > GHz CPUs. Board has IDE and SCSI - only using IDE at the moment. > > I start into the install and everything seems fine. It pops into the gui > version of the installer. I go through the process of selecting the software > packages, etc. It then goes to format the hard drives. It gets past the > format of the first drive, then SEEMS to crash just as the format of the > second drive is completed. The message on the screen back in text mode just > indicates that the installation has terminated abnormally. > > hda - IDE0 master 80 GB maxtor > /boot and / are on this drive. > > hdb - IDE1 slave 120 GB drive > /swap and /home reside on this second drive. > > The install crashes back out when the format of /home seems to be completing. > > I have also tried to install XP on the system, but have gotten the blue > screen after the reboot and install starts up again. > > Suggestions? Thoughts? Thins to try? > > > Randy > > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list