On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 13:14:35 +0000 Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Friday 09 January 2004 21:57, JoeHill wrote: >> On Fri, 9 Jan 2004 21:38:29 +0000 >> >> Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] anne]# urpmi awesfx >> > Please insert the medium named "Installation CD1 (x86) (cdrom1)" >> > on device [/dev/scd0] >> > Press Enter when ready... >> > cp: reading `/mnt/cdrw/Mandrake/RPMS/awesfx-0.4.4-4mdk.i586.rpm': >> > Input/output error >> > installing /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/awesfx-0.4.4-4mdk.i586.rpm >> >> means it could not read from the CD, usually. >> >> Try putting another CD in there and see if you can read from it. If >> not, may be some hardware or file system probs; if another CD works >> fine, ie. you can read the contents, could be the Mandrake CD is >> bad. >> >> > error: read failed: Success (25) >> > unable to install package >> > Preparing... >> > ################################################## >> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] anne]# >> > >> > So - is it installed or not? I guess so, but from those >> > messages, it could mean anything >> >> try 'rpm -q awesfx' to see if it *did* install, which is doubtful >> if it could not read from the CD. Also, it only shows the >> 'Preparing' slider, not the 'Installing' slider. > >Ture - it just seems an odd thing to do. How can it prepare if it >didn't actually download a package? Anyway, it's academic. I'll >sort it out one way or another sometime today. > >The problems I'm having do not relate to just one cd. It has been >single packages that can't be read, not the whole cd. It's not a >major problem as the package can always be found elsewhere. > >Anne >-- >Registered Linux User No.293302 >Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? > > > yeah it probably has bad packages... -- jason pearl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ++++++++++++++++++ "Keep your friends close and your enemies closer"-Tupac ++++++++++++++++++ Kurrupted Visionz Phx, AZ registered linux user #307811 MDK 9.2 Linux Machine# 193475, 227341 AMD64 Opteron 1.6 http://counter.li.org ASUS SK8N 22:29:54 up 1:12, 2 users, load average: 0.08, 0.05, 0.01
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