Austin Acton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Hey guys,
> Can you help?
> 
> My brother is trying to install Mandrake 9 on a Toshiba laptop (I forget
> the model, it's a PIII, about 2 years old...).  And he gets these weird
> errors I can't figure out.  P.S. Mandrake 8 and RedHat 7 and 8 all
> installed without any troubles...
> P.P.S.  The MD5's are fine...
> Any ideas?
> 
> Boot install CD...
> 
> Error
> Could not uncompress second stage ramdisk. This is probably an hardware
> error while reading the data. (this may be caused by a hardware error or
> by a Linux kernel bug)

Probably a badly burnt CD.

Have you checked messages from the console #4?

You might try a boot floppy from /images/alternatives/, also.

-- 
Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/

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