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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