Judith; There are several possibilities that come to mind.
1 - Your CD-Rom drive is defective?
2 - Your CD's are defective? ( This just happened to me on CD#3 - Mandrake
is sending me a replacement)
3 - You have an existing partitionon the drive where Mandrake is to go?
I would lean towards Option #2 myself. Can you return the set to where you
bought it for replacement?
Dan LaBine
Registered Linux User #190712
----- Original Message -----
From: "Judith Crews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2001 6:19 AM
Subject: [newbie]
> i have the "linux-mandrake 7.2 complete" package and it came with 4 discs
> (1-installation cd, 2-extension cd, 3-1st application cd, 4-2nd
application
> cd). i have attempted to install this going on 20 times now and every time
i
> have had the same problem. first, it never asks for any of the other
discs.
> i don't know if this is normal or not, but it isn't a big problem because
i
> can just install the other rpms myself. the main problem is that it has
only
> actually installed one time (when i did the minimum installation). every
> other time i have tried installing it, it has crashed during installation.
> it is uninstalled right now and it will not install in any size
> installation. it always gets errors during the installation of the rpms.
the
> last time i installed it, i typed "text mem=384 all expert" with a 23mb
> /boot, a 256mb swap, and a ~5gb /. and i got this error:
>
> An error occurred
> error installing package list:
> kdelibs-sound-2.0-5mdk, cups-1.1.4-3mdk, clanlib-0.4.4-11mdk,
> guile-1.4-6mdk, umb-scheme-3.2-14mdk, Hermes-1.3.2-2mdk,
> gd-1.8.1-4mdk
>
> ,and then it proceeded to unmount the filesystems and tell me it's safe to
> reboot, without installing linux.
>
> i have also tried "linux mem=384M all expert" and made a 23mb /boot, 256mb
> swap, 1gb /home, 2gb /usr, 2gb /, 500mb /root, 150mb /tmp, 150mb /var, and
i
> still got a similar message but with different packages listed and it
asked
> me if i wanted to continue anyways. after i clicked yes it gave me another
> error with even more packages, and it goes that way for about 5 turns,
> listing new packages each time. then it unmounts and tells me i can
reboot,
> without installing.
>
> i'm trying to install this on a p3 600 dell with a 42x cd-rom, a 13gb hda
> with windows, a 45gb hdb with mp3s, and a 6gb hdc for mandrake. i have
384mb
> ram and an ati rage pro mach64 8mb video card. i don't know much more
about
> the technical info of my computer that would be relevant. if you need more
> info, just let me know and i will find out if i can.
>
> thanks for any help you can provide
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