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ok.. tried an ftp install today from rpmfind.net
just for kicks. I went expert and development twice and both times I ran into
problems. I am running an AMD K6-2 333 with 64 megs ram, AWE64 sound card and a
voodoo-banshee diamond monster fusion. ok.. since I don't speak code, I am going
to simply type out what it said..
Both times I was able to get as far as the
installation of RPMS (I haven't written down which packages I selected sorry)
and began the download. The first time a message popped up on my
screen:
An error
occurred, but I don't know how to handle it nicely. Continue at your own
risk.
dumpkeys
failed at /usr/bin/perl=intall/ keyboard.pm line 217
I can't read my handwriting but I'm sure it says
intall.. Anyway, I hit ok and the installation jumped to configuring network and
then proceeded to halt. Cntrl-Alt F1 provided me with more
information:
file
gdkwindow.c: line 1233 (gdk_window_set_background): assertion `window = NULL `
failed. at /usr/bin/perl-install/install_steps_gtk.pm line 352, <GEN5>
Chunk 73
Ok, the second time I tried ftp install expert and
devel. I changed I just selected all the groups minus networking systems (I
think that's it) and web server and installed 850megs of packages. In the middle
of downloading it froze. I got over and over again the same error above at both
lines 352 and 353. As well CTRL-ALT F3 or F4 gave me the following
information:
Progressing transaction =
384
Done transaction.
Error: bad file
XFree86-libs-3.3.5-13mdk.i586.rpm
Error: bad file
XFree86-3.3.5-13mdk.i586.rpm
Everything froze again. This time, after rebooting,
I discovered that my LILO was foobarred and had to do a fdisk /mbr. Needless to
say, I'm not a professional bug reported (hehe) but I hope this makes sense to
someone. I'm had successful installs of Mandrake 7.0 in the past few weeks, so
I'm pretty sure the error wasn't on my part. I could be wrong though.
JP
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