Hi All, I Spent last night in an "infinit loop" of reinstalling LM 8.1 on a new machine, till I dropped asleep!!! here is the full story...
Got a new P4 desktop machine with, 256 RAM and a 40G HD drive and had the following intention: make it a dual boot machine ( as simple as that used to be ) I did the following: - The machine originally came with Win98SE on it. - installed Partition Magic 4 (yeah I know they'v reached Ver 7 now ). - partitioned the 40G disk into the following: * shrinked the WIN 98 partition to 3G Fat32 called WIN_C * created a 250 Linus Swap * created a 13G Linux native * some free space * the last 10G of the drive made it a Fat32 WIN_D ( to be used for windows data ) - done with the partitioning, I installed W2K - done with the W2K installation, started installing LM 8.1 - chose expert install, but now i got the idea of using the Reiser file system, and have the /home directory on a sperate patition (for future easy upgrading) So, I deleted the 13G ext2 partition ( that I created in Partition Magic) and created 2 new partitions with the Reiser file sys: first one is: 3G with / mount point, second one is 8G with /home as mount point. , and went on with installation. Installation went fine till the last CD ( 3rd) was done, after the window that says: finished copying files, an error message appered saying: AN ERROR OCCURED, SOME IMPORTANT FILES WAS NOT COPIED, then one saying: CANNOT FIND LHLIST, THIS IS PROBABLY CAUSED BY A BAD OR CORRUPTED CD OR CD DRIVE, CHECK THE CD WITH AN INSTALLED MACHINE WITH : rpm -qpm Mandrake/RPMS... bla bla I was confused what could have gone wrong ?! SO I started the instllation again and changed the / partition to ext2 ....same thing happend I started it again changing both partitions to ext2...same thing started again and chose not to install 3rd CD.... guess what ? same error msg ! I know the CD Drive is working fine, and the CD is fine too I used it to install LM on another 3 machines before... CAN anybody tell me what can I do ? I ran out of ideas for the next install ???? I know that was long .... sorry but my night last night was long too :-) started it again --------------------- Hanan AL-Shargi
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