On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 22:30:12 -0700 jason pearl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>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... test sorry -- 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 22:33:16 up 1:15, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.02, 0.00
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