RE: [Cooker] mandrake70.iso
On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Jacky Ouin wrote: > This is stupid Question, but here it is..Is there a Dos/Win app that will > compare the md5sum on a file? You can use cygwin to compile the Unix version for dos/win... Jeff
Re: [Cooker] mandrake70.iso
- Original Message - From: Patrick L. Dartez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 31, 2000 9:41 AM Subject: Re: [Cooker] mandrake70.iso > > > > That's very interesting. Although I wasn't the only one experiencing > > this problem IIRC. > > > > -Charlie > > I also had no problem installing... If I used the high sercurity it gave me > problems but w/the low sercurity it installs fine I miss the "Windows" security level choice. 8-) I too had no problems installing except that it would not use my PS/2 mouse (neither would oxygen or cooker) (the installer would detect it, but the cursor was frozen). A temporary switch to a serial mouse had everything installing fine, and mouseconfig "fixed" it back to the PS/2 mouse after the install. (Also, did an upgrade from cooker and from oxygen with no problems - did not try it from 6.x) Of all the gui installs (Mandrake, Caldera, Corel, RedHat), I do like Mandrake the best, although they all are nice, but all can use a little more tweaking. I only wish that there was a 386/486 version so I could install it on my other machines instead of wresting with RedHat 6.1 - a very broken install on that one. BTW, my CD was burned from an .iso using cdrecord. Since there is to be a fix to the .iso image, will the rawritwwin dosutil be fixed (the missing .dll added?) Also, is the autoboot image OK? - I haven't tried it. Hoyt
Re: [Cooker] mandrake70.iso
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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 I also had no problem installing... If I used the high sercurity it gave me problems but w/the low sercurity it installs fine... Just my 3 Nic`s do not want 2 work... finilly got my 3com to stop giving errors now my Linksys keeps giving me that it failed
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
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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. Eric
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] mandrake70.iso
Hello, This is stupid Question, but here it is..Is there a Dos/Win app that will compare the md5sum on a file? Thanks, Jacky -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Guy T. Rice Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2000 1:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Cooker] mandrake70.iso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 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. 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. -- Guy T. Rice -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- "Every human being should pursue his or her own dharma perfectly instead of following another's dharma imperfectly." -- Hindu scriptures
Re: [Cooker] mandrake70.iso
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 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. 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. -- Guy T. Rice -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- "Every human being should pursue his or her own dharma perfectly instead of following another's dharma imperfectly." -- Hindu scriptures
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
Re: [Cooker] mandrake70.iso
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Same problem here on two different machines. Is this being worked on / > fixed ? > At present I have Mandrake 7 CDROM which is totally useless. can't be reproduced here on *any* box. I'm wondering what the problem is, wondering if the iso is ok, or maybe
Re: [Cooker] mandrake70.iso
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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 Ummm, the Intel EtherExpress Pro caught my attention. I had runtime problems in 6.1 with some cards based on that Chipset--Net access creamed my video and of course I couldn't telnet in either. I am unsure at what point the install goes graphical in Air... So what I am saying may not apply at all. If the card is next to the AGP slot, try moving it to another slot. If it is not, try removing it and see if that could possibly cause the error. Mine acted so much like a shared interrupt problem. And my fix was to toss the cards into some older boxes and use their cards in the newer machines. Both situations worked. Civileme
Re: [Cooker] mandrake70.iso
If you use the text install found in Dosutils it will work. or if you have "W98" installed copy the contents of the disk to your Hard drive then in Dosutils/Autoboot on your hard drive edit the /Dosutils/Autoboot/install.bat you will see what appears to be a machine language code at the end of all lines. remove this symbol then run install. edit your config.sys and autoexec.bat files, they will have been changed and confirm the same machine language code was not installed as well. then reboot and everything will work. Paul - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2000 11:49 PM Subject: Re: [Cooker] mandrake70.iso > > > Same problem here on two different machines. Is this being worked on / > fixed ? > At present I have Mandrake 7 CDROM which is totally useless. > > -- -- > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 28/01/2000 12:19:27 PM > > Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > cc: > Subject: 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
Reasoning to go to 7.0 1. New PC - SoundBlaster live 2. dual CD's ( one a Ricoh 7060 SCSI). Supermount sounds useful. 3. Partitioning tool to help set it all up 4. Every previous version of Mandrake loaded successfully, so why not 7.0 5. It's released. After my problems (on my old faithful as well as my new box), I looked through alt.os.linux.mandrake There are numerous other issues with the installaiton. Any advice greatly appreciated. [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 28/01/2000 04:23:53 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: 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?
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>From doing beta testing, I've seen this before. A company releases a beta, it gets tested and the bug reports are submitted. They then fix the bugs and release the product without doing a final evaluation of the product on their beta list. (hint, hint) Just a reminder for you guys at mandrake. The average numbewr of errors intrduced by bug fixes is one bug for every ten fixes, testing can catch enough of them to reduce this to one in one hundred. You should NEVER release a product that has had a large number of patches applied without running it through a final round of testing. Here's an example of why. The 3D package I beta test for on Windows released a new version (against the objections of the testing team) after fixing a huge list of bug reports. The package was released to the general public (at $1200 a copy) and the following functions had been broken by the bug fixes: Rendering- lens flares, opacity, animation rendering, and several texture mapping features Animation- Key framing was broken Modeling- boolean functions- one of the major cool modeling features, and one of the spline modeling tools. Several other problems that would lock the program. This gave them a black eye they still haven't recovered from. There's a lesson to be learned here guys. I happen to really like what you are doing with the Mandrake release and I'd hate to see the same thing happen to you. Sam On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, you wrote: > 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?
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?
Re: [Cooker] mandrake70.iso
Same problem here on two different machines. Is this being worked on / fixed ? At present I have Mandrake 7 CDROM which is totally useless. [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 28/01/2000 12:19:27 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: 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
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 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
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > 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? > alas no. not really diagnosticated yet :( what's your hardware?
