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/
