Most often that problem is just a bad CD. John W At 10:08 AM 9/21/01 +0200, you wrote: >Hello, > > With the release of 8.1 just around the corner, and with my 8.0 > version badly battered after a failed attempt to upgrade to KDE 2.2, I am > looking forward to a partial re-install as soon as practically possible. > > > My box is a Compaq deskpro 6000 p.pro 180 (don't laugh), 106MB RAM > and about 10 GB of HD spread over 3 IDE disks and about 10 partitions > including doze and swap. > > The trouble is that the installer for 8.0 and freq. June. crashes > somewhere in the package analysis procedure giving a 'no hdlists found'. > The only way around this seemed to be doing a minimum install on freshly > formatted partitions (minimum number of packages on a minimum number of > partitions), then mounting the extra partitions, /var, /usr/local, /home > etc. afterwards, and installing the extra packages from software installer. > >Is seems that the problem is either in diskdrake or the package manager >since avoidance is dependant on choosing a small enough number of packages >to install, and the installer falls back to diskdrake on hitting the >problem, At this point, however, I have to abort the installation and >start again. > >Is this a known bug in 8.0, or is it just me being stupid? > >If it's a bug is it fixed in 8.1, or is there a better workaround than >mine (which is complicated and unreliable)? > >Cheers >Marius
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