[newbie] Is it Reiser or is it something else ?
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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Is it Reiser or is it something else ?
can't help much, but i can say i have seen that error on 3 different linux installs, 2 of them the first cd was bad and i had to download it again, the last, one of the RAM chips was bad. windows didn't notice untill it had run several hours and then it crashed hard, linux noticed early in the install. there is a memory check you can run, but i do not recall the command. you can also try installing with various RAM removed and see if it helps. sorry that isn't much help. On Saturday 09 March 2002 07:41, Hanan Shargi opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: 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 -- If someone tells you they know the truth, listen carefully. If they tell you they know the only truth, run for your life. shane http://shentzu.home.mindspring.com/ Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 http://dmoz.org/ cause humans do it better! Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Is it Reiser or is it something else ?
Hey Tom, That sure was a heavy weight reply ... I'm glad some of you experts do look at our newbie list from time to time ;) But that warning on http://users.ev1/ sure is scary,,, I dont think i wanna go ahead and stress my new system's cpu :) and by the way while I was waiting for replies about my problem I tried installing LM 7.2 and it worked just fine,,, it didn't complain about anything !!! so I guess its not a memory problem after all ?? or could it be that 7.2 was fooled as well ??!! but I'm glad I ( and some folks here ) got to know about some really interesting SW out there and we got some very informative replies from some gurus :) Thanks FOLKS :-) - Hanan AL-Shargi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Is it Reiser or is it something else ?
On Saturday 09 March 2002 06:42 pm, Hanan Shargi wrote: Hey Tom, That sure was a heavy weight reply ... But that warning on http://users.ev1.net/~redelm/ sure is scary,,, I dont think i wanna go ahead and stress my new system's cpu :) It's sort'a jus'a standard lawyer required disclaimer. He's (Robert) just another hand like you or me. My personal opinion is that low hurdle tests like memtest86 are only useful for checkin a system before _really_ stress testing your hardware. Cpuburn has been a hardware (ie, overclockers) tool for some years now ... highly regarded as the last word, the acid test. So if there's a good time to test a system, the best is when its new. Better sooner than later ; and by the way while I was waiting for replies about my problem I tried installing LM 7.2 and it worked just fine,,, it didn't complain about anything !!! so I guess its not a memory problem after all ?? or could it be that 7.2 was fooled as well ??!! Could be ?? Civileme posted just recently that pushin the hardware too far could be a problem for highly optimized, 'hands on hardware' Linux (to paraphrase). I haven't experienced it, but I respect his opinions. Still, A stock, ready made store bought system, runnin any OS, should be able to pass Cpuburn ... or IMO, the hardware is defective/marginal. OTOH, I find the increasing number of posts here and elsewhere that ML 7.x runs fine, but 8.x won't install/load/work... to be a little troubling. I really think it has more to do with the decreasing quality of current hardware, than the increasing 'tightness' of (Mandrake) Linux. Seems to me M$ has too much influence on proliferating marginal hardware, and not browser monopoly's. If Billy can encourage junk hardware, he's got a captive audience for Windoze. BTW, I've been usin ReiserFS for almost 2 years with -0- problems. The only other j-fs I tried was XFS, and 2 days of it last month with ML 8.2 convinced me to go back to Reiser, lickety split .. Y'allsMMV ;) FWIW, I'm usin Mandrake 8.2 (expect it to go final in a week or so) on max overclocked hardware with zip problems for several months .. Well, there are some, but they usually most always boil down to the interface between my keyboard, mouse, and chair ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
