On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 04:52, Derek Jennings wrote:
> On Monday 22 Mar 2004 04:11, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> > I needed to rebuild one of our test security gateways and after
> > experimenting with RedHat, Debian and Slackware, I wanted to give
> > Mandrake 10.0 a try. I was initially very impressed but I am having a
> > devil of a time just installing.
> >
> > The test device is an old e-machines 400Mhz Celeron with 64 MB Ram and a
> > 6.4 GB hard drive. I can successfully install RedHat and Debian from
> > CD.
> >
> > I first tried a CDROM install using the ISO images I downloaded and
> > burned. The system booted perfectly fine but when it tried to access
> > files on the CDROM, I generated the following errors:
> > <4>hdc: SAMSUNG CD-ROM SC-140, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> > .
> > .
> > .
> > <4>hdc: ATAPI 40x CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, DMA
> > <6>Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
> > <5>SCSI subsystem initialized
> > <4>hdc: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> > <4>hdc: command error: error=0x50
> > <4>end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 64
> > <4>isofs_fill_super: bread failed, dev=hdc, iso_blknum=16, block=16
> >
> > I thought it might be a bad CD even though it appeared to work when I
> > tried it on a different computer. I did find that if I booted the test
> > computer into the current Debian installation, I could not manually
> > mount the CD. So I downloaded the ISO again from a different site,
> > checked the MD5 checksum and burned a new CD. Same results.
> >
> > Based upon some other information I found, I tried booting from CD2
> > instead -- same results.
> >
> > I tried a text installation -- same results.
> >
> > I then thought I'd mount the CD on a different computer and do an NFS
> > installation. That started to work but, after a while, it aborted with
> > a signal 7.
> >
> > I tried an NFS installation in text mode -- it made it 60+% of the way
> > and then aborted with a signal 7 error.
> >
> > So far I am striking out even though it appears that one of Mandrake's
> > features is ease of installation. Oh, I also tried cleaning the CD lens
> > in case it was dirty. Same problem. Can someone tell me what I am
> > doing wrong? I'd really like to give Mandrake a try.
> >
> > My apologies if this has already been asked. I did not see a way to
> > search the archives late than 2003-11. How does one search the most
> > current postings to this mail list?
> >
> > Thanks, all - John
>
> Try booting from CD2 and then switch back to CD1 when it asks for the disc
> http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/errata.php3
>
> Bear in mind this is the "Community edition" which means there are still bugs
> to be ironed out before 10,0 "Official" is released. Having said that, my own
> experience is that 10.0 is very solid and stable. I hope you like it :-)
>
> derek
Nope - tried that and it didn't work. I suspect it may have something
to do with the 2.6 kernel as all of the error messages I saw in Google
relating to the specific error message appear to be about the 2.6x
kernel. I found the alternate images to boot from floppy using the
2.4.25 kernel but that didn't work either.
Thanks anyway. Any other thoughts or work-arounds? - John
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