I have found that Linux doesn't like installing from a CD onto a HDD if
the CD-ROM drive is the slave of IDE 1. If it is, make it the slave of
IDE 2 and try again.
Billingham, Jason wrote:
>
> Well I've had another bad experience. Last night I tried 8 times to
> install Slakware 4.0. It may be something I'm doing, but its not working.
> A friend of mine made a CD for me with all the Slakware software on it, (and
> then some) and his installation (on another cd that he made right before
> mine) went perfectly...mine on the other hand had multiple errors when
> installing the disk sets. The error (which I didn't write down, and being in
> tech support I should have known to do that) was something along the lines
> of "Error writing (or uncompressing, I'm not sure) file, invalid (or
> unstable compression format)" This is while its reading from the CD.
