On Thursday 25 April 2002 11:41 pm, civileme wrote: > Kaj Haulrich wrote: > >Hello list..... > > > >Now I'm having a problem. Hitherto every Mandrake install from 7.0 --> 8.1 > >succeeded flawlessly (..well, sort of). Yesterday I received my > > pre-ordered set of 8.2 (7 CD's). As usual (after backing up everything to > > CD), I shuffled the first CD into the cupholder and invited some friends > > to watch the best distro ever doing an install of a full-featured > > linux-sytem..... > > > >Well, I have to admit that the laughing were on their side ! > > > >About 1 minute into the install-process, after deleting the old > > partitions, and allocating new ones as usual, the message appears : > > > >"depslist.ordered mismatch against hdlist files" > > > >....Certainly a very informative statement, eh ? > > > >Well, I handed my friend a round of cool beers and proclaimed : > > > >"No problem, I'll just let it check for bad blocks : same result ! > >Then I tried ALL the filesystems : Reiser, XFS, JFS, ext3 and finally, > > ext2. To no avail. Still the same depslist-stopper. > > > >Hmmm... maybe a bad CD ? - Well , out went the CD and into my laptop. And > >you know what ? - No problems ! - Only my laptop is from the jurassic age > > and accordingly a bit reluctant. But it works. Conclusion : the CD is OK > > ! > > > >Another round of beers. > > > >Then another try at the workstation : somehow I succeded in getting past > > the "informative" message and into the part where one can select the > > packages. And guess what : I was offered to install 4 MB ! - Nothing > > else, nill, nada, zero ! > > > >Now, after another round of beers, I figured that somehow the hardware was > >exhausted and had died.... Nope ! > > > >Just to prove my point I injected the Mandrake 8.1 CD : What a relief ! > >-Everything installed in about 20 minutes. - Everything ! > > > >Well, now I'm back in ye ole 8.1 and happy again. But my friends will > > never - ever - convert to linux. They prefer free beers. > > > >Kaj Haulrich > >Denmark
> >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > See 8.2 errata. Someone inadvertantly put i686 architecture > designatrors on a batch of rpms and it causes problems. > > www.linux-mandrake.com click on security then click on errata. > > Civileme Good heavens, Civileme ! - But thank you anyway. Maybe I'll give it a try when nobody watches. Right now i'll stick with 8.1 and keep a very low profile. Kaj Haulrich Denmark
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