Re: [newbie] Failed Install
Aron Smith wrote: Ok I tried Mdk 10.2RC2 mini no joy then I tried 10.1 community no joy (used for a previous install) then I tried the 2 CD set from linux Journal no joy the message is the same in all cases -- failed to load `/mnt/tmp/drakX-images/01.png : fatal error in png image file iDAT :CRC error You know Aron, you shouldn't see this as a personal failure. Lots of people fail to install and they still manage to cope with day-to-day life and ,OH! Sorry! I accidentally posted this to the wrong list! It was intended for the Microsoft Users Group! My apologies! Damn Outlook Express! Grrr! -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Failed Install
Mr. Geek wrote: Aron Smith wrote: Ok I tried Mdk 10.2RC2 mini no joy then I tried 10.1 community no joy (used for a previous install) then I tried the 2 CD set from linux Journal no joy the message is the same in all cases -- failed to load `/mnt/tmp/drakX-images/01.png : fatal error in png image file iDAT :CRC error You know Aron, you shouldn't see this as a personal failure. Lots of people fail to install and they still manage to cope with day-to-day life and ,OH! Sorry! I accidentally posted this to the wrong list! It was intended for the Microsoft Users Group! My apologies! Damn Outlook Express! Grrr! You're a day late - April Fools Day was yesterday! At least...I *hope* you were joking ;-) -- Regards Margot *-*-*-* Sent using Thunderbird on a 100% Microsoft-Free Computer Registered Linux User 307617 http://counter.li.org Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Community) for i586 kernel 2.6.8.1-24mdk ~~~ REST: P: Linus Torvalds S: Buried alive in email -- from /usr/src/linux/MAINTAINERS ~~~ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Failed Install
Margot wrote: Mr. Geek wrote: Aron Smith wrote: Ok I tried Mdk 10.2RC2 mini no joy then I tried 10.1 community no joy (used for a previous install) then I tried the 2 CD set from linux Journal no joy the message is the same in all cases -- failed to load `/mnt/tmp/drakX-images/01.png : fatal error in png image file iDAT :CRC error You know Aron, you shouldn't see this as a personal failure. Lots of people fail to install and they still manage to cope with day-to-day life and ,OH! Sorry! I accidentally posted this to the wrong list! It was intended for the Microsoft Users Group! My apologies! Damn Outlook Express! Grrr! You're a day late - April Fools Day was yesterday! At least...I *hope* you were joking ;-) Of course I was kidding! Except for the part about there being some sort of psychological support group for Microsoft Users! With all the problems that they have, there HAS to be one, don't you agree? What amazes me is how much Microsoft charges for that kind of support! First they create the problem, and then the charge a fee to all those who are traumatized from their use of the it. Talk about creating your own market! After all, since they don't release their source code to the general public, no one can ever effectively solve a Microsoft-related problem. Now that's what I call a captive audience! Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Failed Install
On Friday 01 April 2005 08:37 pm, Miark wrote: On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 19:05:34 -0800, Aron wrote: Ok I tried Mdk 10.2RC2 mini no joy then I tried 10.1 community no joy (used for a previous install) then I tried the 2 CD set from linux Journal no joy the message is the same in all cases -- failed to load `/mnt/tmp/drakX-images/01.png : fatal error in png image file iDAT :CRC error Did you check the md5sums after you downloaded the images? Yes ,they are fine Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Failed Install
On Friday 01 April 2005 08:06 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Friday 01 April 2005 09:05 pm, Aron Smith wrote: Ok I tried Mdk 10.2RC2 mini no joy then I tried 10.1 community no joy (used for a previous install) then I tried the 2 CD set from linux Journal no joy the message is the same in all cases -- failed to load `/mnt/tmp/drakX-images/01.png : fatal error in png image file iDAT :CRC error I lost track of this thread, Aron did you try booting 10.2 from the second CD? This was all 10.1 as I have not been able to burn 10.2 successfully due to the size of the iso (699.8 Mb ) cannot be put on a 700 Mb disk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Failed Install
On Saturday 02 April 2005 08:06 am, Aron Smith wrote: On Friday 01 April 2005 08:06 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Friday 01 April 2005 09:05 pm, Aron Smith wrote: Ok I tried Mdk 10.2RC2 mini no joy then I tried 10.1 community no joy (used for a previous install) then I tried the 2 CD set from linux Journal no joy the message is the same in all cases -- failed to load `/mnt/tmp/drakX-images/01.png : fatal error in png image file iDAT :CRC error I lost track of this thread, Aron did you try booting 10.2 from the second CD? This was all 10.1 as I have not been able to burn 10.2 successfully due to the size of the iso (699.8 Mb ) cannot be put on a 700 Mb disk Ah, ok, let me ask : how old is your burner? Seems like some of the older burners had trouble when going past 650mb cause that is what the old CDs were limited to. Or was this one of my weird dreams, must remember medications. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Failed Install
On Saturday 02 April 2005 06:54 am, Dennis Myers wrote: On Saturday 02 April 2005 08:06 am, Aron Smith wrote: On Friday 01 April 2005 08:06 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Friday 01 April 2005 09:05 pm, Aron Smith wrote: Ok I tried Mdk 10.2RC2 mini no joy then I tried 10.1 community no joy (used for a previous install) then I tried the 2 CD set from linux Journal no joy the message is the same in all cases -- failed to load `/mnt/tmp/drakX-images/01.png : fatal error in png image file iDAT :CRC error I lost track of this thread, Aron did you try booting 10.2 from the second CD? This was all 10.1 as I have not been able to burn 10.2 successfully due to the size of the iso (699.8 Mb ) cannot be put on a 700 Mb disk Ah, ok, let me ask : how old is your burner? Seems like some of the older burners had trouble when going past 650mb cause that is what the old CDs were limited to. Or was this one of my weird dreams, must remember medications. It's an el cheapo grneraic CD/RW- DVD 16X drive Seriously this is going to be a problem with a lot of hardware prehaps they should have 4 CDs in the set rather than two. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Failed Install
Ah, ok, let me ask : how old is your burner? Seems like some of the older burners had trouble when going past 650mb cause that is what the old CDs were limited to. Or was this one of my weird dreams, must remember medications. It's an el cheapo grneraic CD/RW- DVD 16X drive I don't see any reason why this should not work. Have you tried in Winblows? Seriously this is going to be a problem with a lot of hardware.. It's not. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Failed Install
On Sat, 2 Apr 2005 06:03:19 -0800, Aron wrote: Did you check the md5sums after you downloaded the images? Yes ,they are fine Jeez, Aron, have you ever heard of whitespace? I like trying to help, but reading your messages is a pain in the ass. Anyway, do you have a broadband connection? If so, you could burn the tiny installation ISO. Also, do you check the md5sums of the discs after you burn them? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Failed Install
On Sat, 2 Apr 2005 11:23:57 -0800, Aron wrote: On Saturday 02 April 2005 10:00 am, Miark wrote: On Sat, 2 Apr 2005 06:03:19 -0800, Aron wrote: Did you check the md5sums after you downloaded the images? Yes ,they are fine Jeez, Aron, have you ever heard of whitespace? I like trying to help, but reading your messages is a pain in the ass. Anyway, do you have a broadband connection? If so, you could burn the tiny installation ISO. yes I do have broadband I have downloaded the mini torrent but in spite of the md5sum being correct there I get a crc error about 45 seconds into the install Also, do you check the md5sums of the discs after you burn them? no howw do I do this? md5sum /dev/hdc or whatever the device name is. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Failed Install
On Sat, 2 Apr 2005 11:23:57 -0800, Aron wrote: On Saturday 02 April 2005 10:00 am, Miark wrote: On Sat, 2 Apr 2005 06:03:19 -0800, Aron wrote: Did you check the md5sums after you downloaded the images? Yes ,they are fine Jeez, Aron, have you ever heard of whitespace? I like trying to help, but reading your messages is a pain in the ass. Anyway, do you have a broadband connection? If so, you could burn the tiny installation ISO. yes I do have broadband I have downloaded the mini torrent but in spite of the md5sum being correct there I get a crc error about 45 seconds into the install. See if the install floppy images on you CDs are readable. If so, make a network install boot floppy and try it. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Failed Install
On Friday 01 April 2005 09:05 pm, Aron Smith wrote: Ok I tried Mdk 10.2RC2 mini no joy then I tried 10.1 community no joy (used for a previous install) then I tried the 2 CD set from linux Journal no joy the message is the same in all cases -- failed to load `/mnt/tmp/drakX-images/01.png : fatal error in png image file iDAT :CRC error I lost track of this thread, Aron did you try booting 10.2 from the second CD? -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Failed Install
On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 19:05:34 -0800, Aron wrote: Ok I tried Mdk 10.2RC2 mini no joy then I tried 10.1 community no joy (used for a previous install) then I tried the 2 CD set from linux Journal no joy the message is the same in all cases -- failed to load `/mnt/tmp/drakX-images/01.png : fatal error in png image file iDAT :CRC error Did you check the md5sums after you downloaded the images? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Failed install
Dennis Myers wrote: So any ideas? Does it look like a new CDROM needed? Thanks for any advice. get a set of redhat 8.0. run cd test at start up and you will not only check your c quality, you will check your cdrom drive. i found this out after burning 2 5 cd sets. they were burned on a 48 x 24 x 48 cdrom drive. 1st install attempt was with a 32 x drive and all 5 failed. 2nd attempt was with a 36 x, which passed. every cd i have read on 32 x has been fine up until now. so, it is now used as an audio cd drive. also, if you are burning and reading on diff drives, any time you have read problems, verify that you can read cd on burn drive. you could also try dropping your burn speed to make sure you do not have cheap cd that will not work at speed marked. peace out. tc,hago. g . -- think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email... text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code attachments =+= beauty of real is revealed only to those who persevere. old orthodox saying. =+= perseverance can be a virtue. new orthodox saying =+= perseverance can be a reward. renewed knowledge of old orthodox custom =+= http://home.mem.net/~leem/ =+= may God bless, and have mercy | take care, have a good one slaying dragons | linux + firewalls + wrappers + spoof = fence to gates =+= if you are proud to be an american, then buy made in america. =+= Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Failed install
On Friday 03 Jan 2003 2:25 am, A. Contreras wrote: I'm curious (and please, if this is covered in a FAQ, point me in the right direction). Say you have a machine with 9.0 installed, and on your network you have another machine that you can't get to install it and you suspect the CDROM is to blame. Short of taking a CDROM from one into the other, , can you use one to install the other? A. Contreras My CR website: http://www.elnonio.dns04.com Yes. One way of doing it is to mount the CD images as loopback file systems, and then export them as NFS shares. On the computer you want to boot you then boot from floppy using the 'network' boot image you will find on a Mandrake mirror site. A network install allows you to boot from an FTP site, or an NFS share. Just follow the prompts. This is 'mentioned' in the Mandrake installer instructions, but not really covered in depth. Once you are installed, if you then declare your software sources in Mandrake Software Manager to be ftp sites instead of Cd's you can manage without CDs altogether. It is even possible to manage without a floppy drive so long as your computer BIOS is able to perform a PXE network boot to acquire the boot image. derek -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Derek Jennings Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 7:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Failed install On Thursday 02 Jan 2003 10:06 pm, Guy Rouillier wrote: - Original Message - From: mycal62 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 3:51 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Failed install Thanks for the reply. Hi , First , it can be quite frustrating to go through an install as you did. two things come to mind to ask though, were the cd's given you copies of downloaded iso's? or original cd's ? The CD-R's given to me were burned from downloaded ISO images. The guy at work claimed he used them already numerous times, so I'm sure the problem is with my old 2x CD-ROM. Before you give up ( hopefully you haven't yet ) try another cd drive, and or new/origianl disks ( if they weren't ). I'll definitely reinstall when the rewriteable gets here. I just think, as I stated in my original note, that the install process is poorly designed. The failures I encountered were in non-critical packages, so it should have just said so and finished the installation. If your CD drive is old, it may not be able to read the 700MB CDs Mandrake 9.0 requires. A lot of people have reported trouble with older CD drives. A set of 650 Mb images is available for Mandrake Club members if you are desperate, but it is easier to just do a network install from an FTP site. (So long as you have broadband) derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Failed install
On Fri, 3 Jan 2003 10:15:16 + Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes. One way of doing it is to mount the CD images as loopback file systems, and then export them as NFS shares. On the computer you want to boot you then boot from floppy using the 'network' boot image you will find on a Mandrake mirror site. A network install allows you to boot from an FTP site, or an NFS share. Just follow the prompts. This is 'mentioned' in the Mandrake installer instructions, but not really covered in depth. That is one way of doing it, and you can also set the one where it is installed as a FTP-server and install it from there. /Anders Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re: [newbie] Failed install
Well, I did manage to get the install to work from FTP: on my good PC, I activated IIS5's FTP server, root is ./linux9 I copied the files from CD1 to ./linux9/d1, CD2 to ./d2 and CD3 to d3. Figuring that the installer would prolly not look at d2 and d3, I also copied ./d2/Mandrake/RPMS2 to ./d1/Mandrake/RPMS2 AND the contents of RPMS2 to ./d1/Mandrake/RPMS. Overkill, but that way I felt sure the installed would find the RPMS either from RPMS2 or RPMS. Did the same with disk 3. Installation kicked off, but I'm still having issues with the system. It can boot, but freezes whenever I try to access configuration tools (harddrake2, and such). Next plan is strip the box from all unnecessary hardware (sound card, CDROM, I had already pulled the modem) and start again. Starting to get pretty frustrated with this box and thinking about buillding a new one, just need a new mother board, got plenty of other spares. Anyone have a recent motherboard with AGP, pentium II slot for sale? Antonio ---Original Message--- From: Anders Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 01/03/03 04:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Failed install On Fri, 3 Jan 2003 10:15:16 + Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes. One way of doing it is to mount the CD images as loopback file systems, and then export them as NFS shares. On the computer you want to boot you then boot from floppy using the 'network' boot image you will find on a Mandrake mirror site. A network install allows you to boot from an FTP site, or an NFS share. Just follow the prompts. This is 'mentioned' in the Mandrake installer instructions, but not really covered in depth. That is one way of doing it, and you can also set the one where it is installed as a FTP-server and install it from there. /Anders Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Failed install
Hi , First , it can be quite frustrating to go through an install as you did. two things come to mind to ask though, were the cd's given you copies of downloaded iso's? or original cd's ? copies can often be defective or at least less than perfect, and RH disks that are not perfect can also do much the same. also if the cd drive isn't perfect, or misreads data , any OS would give you problems either immediately, or in time. I've always liked that fact that Mandrake installs require good equiptment ( and I don't mean new, just properly working ) to continue, because it has helped me find problem equiptment quickly. Before you give up ( hopefully you haven't yet ) try another cd drive, and or new/origianl disks ( if they weren't ). Mike Guy Rouillier wrote: I've run Redhat up till now, and at a coworker's urging, decided to give Mandrake 9 a try. I have pretty old equipment at home, including a 2x CD-ROM, so the install took quite awhile (I recently purchased a higher-speed rewriteable off eBay - hasn't arrived yet.) Turns out this old CD-ROM apparently had trouble reading the CD-Rs my coworker supplied. At a couple points on disks 2 and 3, I got a popup dialog telling me it was unable to read a package, continue? I figured no big deal, I can live without those packages - the whole first CD went without error, so I thought all the system files would be okay. Well, after install took 2 hrs to go through all 3 CDs, it then popped up a message saying Errors detected in one or more packages (approximate wording - I didn't write it down). It then jumped back to the start of the installation process!!! Didn't configure root or additional user, etc, so the 2-hr process it just went through was useless. I then went back through install and told it to ignore disks 2 and 3, and got a working system. But I'd like to suggest to Mandrake if they lurk here to either (1) abort the install as soon as they know it is unrecoverable, or (2) finish configuration if errors are detected only in non-essential packages. This was a very frustrating intro to Mandrake. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Mike McNeese Springdale, Arkansas USA ° Currently triple booting 98lite; MDK 8.0 kernel 2.4.3-20; MDK 9.0 kernel 2.4.19-16 Registered Linux User #248955 ° If obstacles are what you see in your path... Then you have lost sight of your goal! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Failed install
Aha! same thing happened on my linux 9.0 install marathon. A piece of advice (which I knew before I started but somehow ignored) is to only select the strict minimum number of packages during an install. Makes sense, everything else can pretty much be installed after you have set up a functional system with the basics. So, OS first, software later. A. Contreras My CR website: http://www.elnonio.dns04.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Guy Rouillier Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 2:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Failed install I've run Redhat up till now, and at a coworker's urging, decided to give Mandrake 9 a try. I have pretty old equipment at home, including a 2x CD-ROM, so the install took quite awhile (I recently purchased a higher-speed rewriteable off eBay - hasn't arrived yet.) Turns out this old CD-ROM apparently had trouble reading the CD-Rs my coworker supplied. At a couple points on disks 2 and 3, I got a popup dialog telling me it was unable to read a package, continue? I figured no big deal, I can live without those packages - the whole first CD went without error, so I thought all the system files would be okay. Well, after install took 2 hrs to go through all 3 CDs, it then popped up a message saying Errors detected in one or more packages (approximate wording - I didn't write it down). It then jumped back to the start of the installation process!!! Didn't configure root or additional user, etc, so the 2-hr process it just went through was useless. I then went back through install and told it to ignore disks 2 and 3, and got a working system. But I'd like to suggest to Mandrake if they lurk here to either (1) abort the install as soon as they know it is unrecoverable, or (2) finish configuration if errors are detected only in non-essential packages. This was a very frustrating intro to Mandrake. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Failed install
- Original Message - From: mycal62 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 3:51 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Failed install Thanks for the reply. Hi , First , it can be quite frustrating to go through an install as you did. two things come to mind to ask though, were the cd's given you copies of downloaded iso's? or original cd's ? The CD-R's given to me were burned from downloaded ISO images. The guy at work claimed he used them already numerous times, so I'm sure the problem is with my old 2x CD-ROM. Before you give up ( hopefully you haven't yet ) try another cd drive, and or new/origianl disks ( if they weren't ). I'll definitely reinstall when the rewriteable gets here. I just think, as I stated in my original note, that the install process is poorly designed. The failures I encountered were in non-critical packages, so it should have just said so and finished the installation. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Failed install
On Thursday 02 Jan 2003 10:06 pm, Guy Rouillier wrote: - Original Message - From: mycal62 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 3:51 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Failed install Thanks for the reply. Hi , First , it can be quite frustrating to go through an install as you did. two things come to mind to ask though, were the cd's given you copies of downloaded iso's? or original cd's ? The CD-R's given to me were burned from downloaded ISO images. The guy at work claimed he used them already numerous times, so I'm sure the problem is with my old 2x CD-ROM. Before you give up ( hopefully you haven't yet ) try another cd drive, and or new/origianl disks ( if they weren't ). I'll definitely reinstall when the rewriteable gets here. I just think, as I stated in my original note, that the install process is poorly designed. The failures I encountered were in non-critical packages, so it should have just said so and finished the installation. If your CD drive is old, it may not be able to read the 700MB CDs Mandrake 9.0 requires. A lot of people have reported trouble with older CD drives. A set of 650 Mb images is available for Mandrake Club members if you are desperate, but it is easier to just do a network install from an FTP site. (So long as you have broadband) derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Failed install
I'm curious (and please, if this is covered in a FAQ, point me in the right direction). Say you have a machine with 9.0 installed, and on your network you have another machine that you can't get to install it and you suspect the CDROM is to blame. Short of taking a CDROM from one into the other, , can you use one to install the other? A. Contreras My CR website: http://www.elnonio.dns04.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Derek Jennings Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 7:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Failed install On Thursday 02 Jan 2003 10:06 pm, Guy Rouillier wrote: - Original Message - From: mycal62 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 3:51 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Failed install Thanks for the reply. Hi , First , it can be quite frustrating to go through an install as you did. two things come to mind to ask though, were the cd's given you copies of downloaded iso's? or original cd's ? The CD-R's given to me were burned from downloaded ISO images. The guy at work claimed he used them already numerous times, so I'm sure the problem is with my old 2x CD-ROM. Before you give up ( hopefully you haven't yet ) try another cd drive, and or new/origianl disks ( if they weren't ). I'll definitely reinstall when the rewriteable gets here. I just think, as I stated in my original note, that the install process is poorly designed. The failures I encountered were in non-critical packages, so it should have just said so and finished the installation. If your CD drive is old, it may not be able to read the 700MB CDs Mandrake 9.0 requires. A lot of people have reported trouble with older CD drives. A set of 650 Mb images is available for Mandrake Club members if you are desperate, but it is easier to just do a network install from an FTP site. (So long as you have broadband) derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Failed install
- Original Message - From: Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 8:31 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Failed install I just think, as I stated in my original note, that the install process is poorly designed. The failures I encountered were in non-critical packages, so it should have just said so and finished the installation. Guy: That's an interesting idea, but it's probably not practical to implement. Your definition of non-critical is probably quite different than mine. My bet is that the new drive solves your problems. Well, they could use a hammer approach and then refine it over time. For example, if Disk 1 was okay but errors occurred on Disk 2 or 3, then the installation can start up, so finish the install. If errors occurred on Disk 1, then likely the installation is fubar and won't be able to start up in any clean configuration, so just abort the install. Of course, the installer can always prompt (in the first case) I encountered some errors but the installation will boot up - would you like to abort or finish? What could be more irksome than the current approach of taking two hours to finish, not saying anything until the end, then dumping the user back at the start of the installation again? At the very least, abort the whole process when you encounter the first read error, because you know at that point you are not going to let the installation finish anyway. (And of course, I don't mean you Carroll, I mean you the Mandrake installation process.) Yes, I'm sure the new CD-RW will take care of all this. Thanks to all for taking the time to reply. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
