Robert Stephens wrote:
>
> I have been trying to install mandrake and I have been running into the
> following problem when the software packages are installing. The software
> installation will suddenly give an error message asking me to confirm my
> keyboard setup, then kills the whole installation. I have an english-us
> keyboard, a micron p-II 450, 128 mb ram. the exact error message is:
> "unable to find file us-latin1.kmp in archive /usr/share/keymaps.cz2 at
> /usr/bin/extract_archive line 26". Can anyone please advise me what I can
> do to get the install to work? I am a newbie at this and any help would be
> greatly appreciated! Thanks. I have posted this to the newsgroups so far
> with no success getting an answer.
Hello, Robert,
Well, you got past the HDD hurdle, and it sounds like you are
using 7.0 Mandrake.
I have experienced similar messages a couple of times. In one
case I dropped the bus clock to 95 and it went fine (a Gateway,
naturally), and in the other case I had to *replace* a defective
CD drive, on a brand new Dell Inspiron. The user wasn't too
happy to see that, as you can well imagine.
If you have a different keyboard available which can fit the
slot, you might want to try that first, but it does definitely
smell like a hardware problem.
Civileme
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