On Sunday 24 Aug 2003 1:04 pm, Lanman wrote:

The only way I managed to install it was to first disconnect my printer 
completely. Cannot remember what else wasn't working but I decided to go back 
to 9.1. Fortunately my /home stuff was still there and I didn't even notice 
I'd reinstalled.

HTH

Mark A
> Since the release of 9.2 Beta2 I haven't heard or seen anything about it
> from anyone on the list. Is this because it's so amazing that list members
> are speechless? Or because they can't finish an install, and are therefore
> disconnected from the "Net" ? I tried burning and installing them, and it
> quickly went to hell. Several restarts later (this is the short version), I
> got to the end of the install. When it tried to detect my printer (Brother
> MFC4800), which is not supported by Linux yet, it displayed a message that
> it was unable to find "printer.rpm" and stopped there. That's it. All done.
> It simply wouldn't go any further. I'm considering re-doing the install
> without a printer attached to see if that solves it, but without the
> above-noted rpm, I doubt it will finish properly at all. Obviously, either
> the rpm is not on the CD's at all, or the path statement used by the
> installer is wrong. Either way, it's not happening.
>
> Any suggestions or similar situations out there in Mandrake-Land? I realize
> that it's a Beta, and that there may be bugs in it still, but perhaps
> there's a work-around? Also, didn't Mandrake announce that the new 2.6
> Kernel would be added to Beta2? Didn't find it. FYI, I checked the md5sums
> of course. Just curious if anyone had something to offer about any of this
> ?
>
> Thanks in Advance,...
>
> Lanman


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