Hello Sean
This problem has been experienced by others installing 7.0-2 in
addition to yourself.
The most common solution seems to have been swapping the cdrom drive
for another for install purposes. Hope that this is a possibility
for you and that someone else has a better suggestion.
Ron
Sean Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> I downloaded the iso for mandrake 7.02 and
> burned to a CD. I then booted this CD on my
> P133 Mhz system. I did NOT get any cool
> graphical installer. I got the generic installer.
> And when I tried to install It hangs on
> initializing the CDROM step. Yes, I have an
> ATAPI Cdrom. I've installed every other different
> distribution of Linux on this computer before.
> And I've installed the distribution on another
> Computer. But I don't understand why it hangs
> on initializing this CDROM and how I can get
> around it whithout installing another CDROM.
> I had these same issues with 7.0 and they were
> never resolved other than being told that
> Oxygen/Air had some bugs in it. I figured they
> would have fixed this bug since I can load 6.0
> on it with no problem. Seems Mandrake may need
> to re-analyze their new installer and find out
> why it does NOT initialize ALL atapi cdrom before
> they rush this product out to market. Sorry if
> this email seems harsh, but it is quite an
> annoying problem. Does anyone have any ideas?
> By the way the, cdrom is a TEAC cdrom if that helps.
> Thanx,
> SA
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