Bob James wrote:
>
> OS: Mandrake 5.3, from CheapBytes GPL CD
>
> Machine: HP Vectra VL 5/75 Series 3, Adaptec SCSI 1542CF with Micropolis
> 4341NS drive attached. CDROM is an IDE, Sanyo CRD-820P. System has 72M
> RAM. The video is Cirrus GD5430, and the NIC is 3Com 3C509-TP.
>
> Issue: System boots to MS-DOS 6.22 fine. The CDROM is using a generic
> CDROM.SYS for a driver, but this is also working fine, from DOS. During
> installation of Mandrake, the components are located (with the exception
> of the NIC, but that's due to this issue) and the drive can be
> partitioned fine. Formatting of the disk space proceeds normally, and
> the selection of the packages is also fine. However, when the system
> attempts to locate the RPMs for installation, it fails, with the error:
> Failed to access RPM database. Then the installation aborts, and I get a
> message saying its safe to reboot.
>
> At first, I thought it was the CD, but when I use an older Mandrake CD I
> have (5.1), one that I HAVE had successful installs from, it also fails
> with the same message. Any ideas?
After the failure message, switch consoles using Alt-F3 and then
Alt-F4. There are debug messages printed to each of these terminals
that might provide a few more clues as to why it is failing.
If they don't seem to provide any clues for you, post 'em and we'll all
take a look.
--
Steve Philp
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