[olug] Progeny is a virus . . . . . ?!?

[Mike Peterson]

Did you burn the CD from and ISO without any errors reported or was it given
to you?
What type of system do you have?
How old? What brand motherboard? What processor?
Did any other distributions install and run?
Did Mandrake 8 install and run?
Is your HD on the primary or secondary or another add in card controller?

When I installed Progeny 1.0 this year I had to boot from floppy but it did
partition and install and booted into the xwindows.
It installed from CD without floppy and I created and emergency boot floppy.
I had to use the emergency boot floppy after restart because it did not make
the HD bootable for some unknown reason.
I had the same thing happen with Engarde Secure Linux.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Hungate Jim" <Hungate_Jim at prc.com>
To: <olug at bstc.net>
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 6:56 AM
Subject: [olug] Progeny is a virus . . . . . ?!?


>   I've tried several Linux disros on  my system. The latest has been
> Mandrake 8.0. Last night I decided to try Progeny (One of the guys here at
> work is a big Debian fan). When the install reached the point where I was
> going to set up partitions, I received an error message stating that the
> install couldn't find my partition table and asking if I would like to
> create a new one. I obviously said no, cancelled the install, and rebooted
> the system. Unfortunately, now my partition table WAS gone. (Good thing
that
> I backup my system regularly). I used fdisk to recreate all of my
parttions,
> formatted the partitions and attempted the install again and got the same
> results. Once again my partition table is gone.
>   I've never seen anything like this. I attempted on an older system too,
> and got the same results.
>   Has anyone else run across a problem like this?
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