Hello Dennis, Wednesday, May 5, 2004, 8:07:08 PM, you wrote:
DM> On Wednesday 05 May 2004 08:49 pm, rikona wrote: >> The md5's on the disks are OK, and they seemed to work during >> install, but the install program seemed to be rather confused. It >> asked for a disk, but when I inserted it, it asked for a different >> one, and then a different one, and so on, never seeming to find >> what it needed. >> >> Any ideas to get 10.0 running would be much appreciated. Also would >> like to get the CD running again, too. :-) >> >> Did I encounter, perhaps, the two extremes in installing Mandrake? :-) DM> It sounds to me like a hardware problem. Can you put a different DM> CDrom drive perhaps? I might be able to find an old 2-4X one that got replaced, but never thrown away. :-) Still, it seems an odd coincidence that the CD would fail right after the first boot of MD. The tray opens up right after power-on, well before MD loads, and even before the BIOS completes. During the install, the CD behaved normally, and was happy to stay closed with a CD in place, and the BIOS booted from the CD. Any idea why the CD is so different mechanically right after the install? I seem to remember some talk about MD zapping CD drives. Could this be still happening? DM> Were the disks made on a different machine Yes. DM> and are they the rewritable media? No. DM> Some CD devices have trouble with CDRW discs. Agreed. I'd not try that for an install. DM> I have Installed 10 official on three different machines now with DM> no problem. I'm envious. :-)) DM> One is an older AMD K6 II 333mhz machine with a 12x DM> CDRom I think. This is also rather old - a P2 120, Asus MBoard, Intel chip set, Stealth 3D (S3) video, SMC network card, but has 256 Megs memory. It will be used by a novice as a Windows replacement for email and web surfing. No need for high performance. DM> Good luck, Thanks. Any other thoughts much appreciated. -- rikona mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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