Re: [Cooker] mandrake70.iso
On Sun 30 Jan at 13:00:29 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] done said: You could of course simply copy the image off your currently non-functional CD and run md5sum over it to see if it matches the official image. Unfortunately, that was the first thing I did and it came back fine.
Re: [Cooker] 7.0 release delayed!
On Mon 31 Jan at 02:42:01 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] done said: please, do not use them!!! a really better fix is currently under heavy test the one in updates is still buggy (for fat resize) i should upload last one in less than an hour (hopefully) Are these updates simply for installing with an existing FAT partition and/or do they address the ramdisk error? Could you please let us know when the new and improved updates are available? I'd really appreciate it. Warm regards, -Charlie
Re: [Cooker] mandrake70.iso
On Sun 30 Jan at 21:42:13 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] done said: It has to be your CDROM. I downloaded the Mandrake 7 .iso and burned it to CD. I have installed it on 4 different computers with no problems at all. Unless you have some very strange computers. That's very interesting. Although I wasn't the only one experiencing this problem IIRC. -Charlie
Re: [Cooker] mandrake70.iso
On Sat 29 Jan at 16:01:17 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] done said: can't be reproduced here on *any* box. I'm wondering what the problem is, wondering if the iso is ok, or maybe I wonder if that is the case. I've never experienced this problem before and on all three machines on which I've tried it, it's failed. I'd be more than happy to test out the 'official' 7.0 if you'd like to send it to me, as you can imagine, I wouldn't be willing to spend my own money to purchase it considering the issues I've experienced thus far. If this is a possibility, please contact me directly and I'll send you the appropriate information. Warm regards, -Charlie
[Cooker] mandrake70.iso
Greetings, I just downloaded the 7.0 iso image from ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/distributions/mandrake/iso/, checked it against the md5sum and everything looked kosher. So I burned it w/ cdrecord, dropped it in the cdrom, rebooted and it loaded to the install menu. As soon as it tried to load the ramdisk, it failed and that was that. I tried it on one of my other machines and same deal. I tested it w/ the 'expert' mode and nada. Am I the only one who has experienced this? Best regards, -Charlie
Re: [Cooker] mandrake70.iso
On Fri 28 Jan at 01:20:31 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] done said: alas no. not really diagnosticated yet :( what's your hardware? These are the two machines that I tried and on which the install failed: [Box 1]: - Dual Celeron 400 (overclocked to 500MHz) on an ASUS P2B-D motherboard - 64Mb PC100 RAM - 44x ATAPI cdrom - Tekram DC-390 SCSI adapter (although no SCSI devices attached) - SoundBlaster 64 AWE sound card - Intel EtherExpress Pro ethernet adapter [Box 2]: - AMD K6-2 380MHz on FIC PA-2013 motherboard - 128Mb PC100 RAM - Adaptec 2940UW SCSI adapter - Yamaha CRW4260 SCSI burner - 40x ATAPI cdrom - Yamaha PCI soundcard that isn't supported - Intel EtherExpress Pro ethernet adapter I also tried using some of the boot images that were on the cd, but it didn't get me any further. Cheers, -Charlie
Re: [Cooker] mandrake70.iso
BTW, I just tried this on my IBM Thinkpad 380D and it asked me if I needed any PCMCIA devices for the install, I said no, it went ahead and loaded the second stage ramdisk and failed with the same error. I'm now batting 0/3 :( -Charlie On Thu 27 Jan at 19:10:48 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] done said: On Fri 28 Jan at 01:20:31 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] done said: alas no. not really diagnosticated yet :( what's your hardware? These are the two machines that I tried and on which the install failed: [Box 1]: - Dual Celeron 400 (overclocked to 500MHz) on an ASUS P2B-D motherboard - 64Mb PC100 RAM - 44x ATAPI cdrom - Tekram DC-390 SCSI adapter (although no SCSI devices attached) - SoundBlaster 64 AWE sound card - Intel EtherExpress Pro ethernet adapter [Box 2]: - AMD K6-2 380MHz on FIC PA-2013 motherboard - 128Mb PC100 RAM - Adaptec 2940UW SCSI adapter - Yamaha CRW4260 SCSI burner - 40x ATAPI cdrom - Yamaha PCI soundcard that isn't supported - Intel EtherExpress Pro ethernet adapter I also tried using some of the boot images that were on the cd, but it didn't get me any further. Cheers, -Charlie
Re: [Cooker] mandrake70.iso
On Mon 28 Feb at 04:49:12 + [EMAIL PROTECTED] done said: Same problem here on two different machines. Is this being worked on / fixed ? At present I have Mandrake 7 CDROM which is totally useless. I don't mean for this to sound accusatory, but I thought this would have been tested a bit more thoroughly before release. This seems to be a problem that unfortunately occurs more and more regularly regardless of distro. BTW: What was the reasoning for making the leap to 7.0 from 6.1?
