This happened to me with a buggy cdrom. Are you sure your cdrom can read the data on cd "right" ? Are you sure your cd's were written correct, like, have you done an md5 check? Onur Kucuk JCW> Mandrake staff, JCW> First off let me congratulate you on a very nice release (8.1). I have JCW> loaded it on one of my older boxes, and it works very nicely. My JCW> question is about installing it on a newer box. This machine is a Tyan JCW> M/B (S2390B) with KT133 (VIA 686B Southbridge), Athlon 1.33GHZ, 768M JCW> PC-133 RAM, NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 Model 64 Pro, and, I must add, it is a JCW> piece of shit. This install is on a dual boot disk with W2K Pro Server JCW> residing on the first partition. MDK starts on hda5. I am sure Mandrake JCW> 8.1 is not at fault. It is, no doubt, the buggy hardware. But maybe, JCW> just maybe, you might have some insight or work around. I simply love JCW> Mandrake, and I hope I can get it installed... JCW> The type of install that takes me the furthest into the process is an JCW> expert install, creating custom mount points (partitions are /, /boot, JCW> /usr/, swap, /var, and /home), and using the reiserfs f/s. Using this JCW> method, I can get all the way to the process in which the packages are JCW> actually being copied from CD to harddrive. The install process will JCW> copy files for a length of time. Performing multiple installs, this JCW> copying can varies from 2 mins of copy activity to 20 mins of copy JCW> activity. And then it just stops on some package, no particular package JCW> (varies each install session), no errors msgs, and it is stopped until I JCW> do a hard reboot. Any ideas as to what in the hell is going on between JCW> software and hardware? JCW> Thanks, _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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