On Sat, 27 Nov 1999,Gerry Doyon wrote:
| Howdy all,
|
| I am attempting to load Mandrake v6.0 off a CD that I have used a dozen
| times before. I for the most part get an error as follow:
|
| Uncompressing...
|
| CRC error
|
| --System halted.
|
| Sometimes I've gotten almost all the way through the install. Now I
| don;t get any further than pressing the Enter key to begin the install.
|
| I started with 32MB of ram and added another 32MB. Thinking that the RAM
| might be bad I backed that out. I added a second hard drive. Thinking
| that might be causing a problem I backed THAT out. Now I am left with
| the original comonents.
|
| Any ideas? Maybe it is the RAM. Maybe it is the CD? Maybe it is the
| CD-ROM drive? Any suggestions?
|
| Thanks in advance!
|
| - Gerry Doyon
If you are booting with a floppy to start the install, you may have a bad
floppy. To fix this, start the system in DOS (or Win9x). Copy the rawrite.exe
(or winrawrite.exe) file from the /dosutils folder to a folder of your choice
(in your DOS or Win9x partition). run the rawrite program and answer the
questions. When rawrite asks you for the file to write from, use
D:\images\boot.img
where D is replaced with the CD-ROM drive letter. You will also need a good
floppy disk. When rawrite asks for a destination, give it the floppy drive A or
B. This should produce a usable boot disk for your Linux instalation.
If on the other hand, you are booting from the CD-ROM, you probably have a bad
CD, which will have to be replaced, I think.
If you are booting with a floppy, and you can boot from the CD-ROM, try that
first to save yourself all the trouble of producing the boot floppy.
HTH,
--
Ernie ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
The measure of a man is in his honor ...
