got the same error you describe but reburned the cd and had a nice clean install. you might try cleaning the cd first though. best of luck.....
On Monday 07 January 2002 16:15, you spoke unto me thusly: > I am trying to install 8.1 on a PC (AMD AthlonXP 1700, one IDE drive, one > DVD drive, one CD-RW drive) and I get to the point where it wants to > display the packages to install. At that point, I get the series of cdrom > errors shown in the included dmesg. Sometimes it stops after a few tries > and displays the message "An error occurred. No hdlists found" Other times, > it just cycles forever as in the attached dmesg. > > I have previously installed this version of Mandrake on this machine from > these CDs, though with a different monitor. Best guess: do I have a bad CD > or a bad CD drive? And what can I do about either? > > Many thanks, > andy -- Remember, to a tree being useful is a terminal illness. shane registered linux user #101606 @ http://counter.li.org/ http://www.mystic-light.net/personal/ Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 http://dmoz.org cause humans do it better! Link different. Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html
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