On Fri, 16 Mar 2001 06:43:19 -0500, you wrote:
>Marc,
>
>>From my experience those are very common hardware errors. My machine at
>work did the same thing when I tried to install Mdk7.2 while 7.1
>installed flawlessly each time. It doesn't surprise me that 8.0beta us
>doing this since the hardware specs are probably even tighter in this
>one then previous versions.
>
>Mark
Thats wierd...I did a fresh install of 8.0, and though I had to do it
over (my fault), it went without issue...
>
>Marc wrote:
>>
>> I installed it from scratch. Or I should say, I made the effort. But
>> installation failed over and over again. I downloaded the two ISO images
>> from Mandrake 8 beta1 but with installation of the packages I got several
>> interrupt at instalation stating: "Some important packages could not be
>> installed , do you wnat to continue anyway".
>>
>> I tried the installation a few times but everytime i got the error and
>> eveytime it failed at different packages.
>>
>> I now installed MDK72 again and I will try to upgrade manually to the
>> packages I want. I had similar problems when I installed (some time ago)
>> Mandrake 7.2 Beta.
>>
>> When the beta it is installed it works usually fine , but I always have lots
>> of problems with installation.
>>
>> Marcus
>>
>> On Thursday 15 March 2001 02:56, you wrote:
>> > I'm sorry if this has been addressed on the list already. I have not seen
>> > it and have not been able to find it in the archives.
>> >
>> > I know that in the past there have been issues with upgrading from one
>> > release to another. I want to know if this is again the case with 8.0. I
>> > have a box running 7.2 and I want to try 8.0 Beta. I know the risks
>> > involved with beta software. I'm not too concerned about that right now.
>> > I just don't want to install from scratch right now. I want to attempt to
>> > upgrade _if_ the system is designed to do so.
>> >
>> > Any thoughts on this?
>> >
>> > Thank you,
>> >
>> > Scott Patten
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