Bill Greenwood wrote: > > Mike--- I suggest you burn another CD, as it looks like that one has a > bad spot where it is trying to access that bit of information. I > suggest you burn it at a slower speed, possibly half the speed from your > first one. It may be that brand of CD-R as Warly also suggested. > > Warly suggested that you do that because of the error information you > submitted. > > --Bill > > ======= > > Mike Eheler wrote: > > >>1. burn a new CD > >> > > > >Pointless. This is the third set of cds (i've burned 8.2 beta 2, 3 & 4) > >that I've done. None have worked. > > > >>2. try new CDR brand > >> > > > >I'd rather not.. the cds themselves work fine if I use a different drive > >so I doubt very much that it's the cdr brand (Memorex 700MB black). > > > >>3. change your CD drive > >> > > > >I can use a different drive in my machine to install.. but since I have > >3 IDE hard drives, and 2 IDE cd-rom (1 rw & 1 dvd) I have to unplug the > >writer to install. Doing this means that Mandrake won't set up the drive > >with ide-scsi so I can burn in 8.2. > > > >>4. change your burner > >> > > > >Ha! > > > >>5. do not test > >> > > > >So this is how mandrake answers bug reports? "If it doesn't work for > >you, don't bother". Makes me wonder why I bothered to purchase a boxed > >8.1 and subscribe to MandrakeClub. > > > >>Warly > >> > > > >Honestly, Warly. If that was all you had to say, perhaps you'd best not > >have answered in the first place. Now, how about actually trying to > >figure out what's wrong? Anyone? The CD seems to have no problem > >accessing the drive for booting, yet once it's booted it appears unable > >to mount the drive. > > > >Mike > > > >
You can extract the .rpm packages from .iso image to HD and install from there. Irek
