Marc,
>From my experience those are very common hardware errors. My machine at
work did the same thing when I tried to install Mdk7.2 while 7.1
installed flawlessly each time. It doesn't surprise me that 8.0beta us
doing this since the hardware specs are probably even tighter in this
one then previous versions.
Mark
Marc wrote:
>
> I installed it from scratch. Or I should say, I made the effort. But
> installation failed over and over again. I downloaded the two ISO images
> from Mandrake 8 beta1 but with installation of the packages I got several
> interrupt at instalation stating: "Some important packages could not be
> installed , do you wnat to continue anyway".
>
> I tried the installation a few times but everytime i got the error and
> eveytime it failed at different packages.
>
> I now installed MDK72 again and I will try to upgrade manually to the
> packages I want. I had similar problems when I installed (some time ago)
> Mandrake 7.2 Beta.
>
> When the beta it is installed it works usually fine , but I always have lots
> of problems with installation.
>
> Marcus
>
> On Thursday 15 March 2001 02:56, you wrote:
> > I'm sorry if this has been addressed on the list already. I have not seen
> > it and have not been able to find it in the archives.
> >
> > I know that in the past there have been issues with upgrading from one
> > release to another. I want to know if this is again the case with 8.0. I
> > have a box running 7.2 and I want to try 8.0 Beta. I know the risks
> > involved with beta software. I'm not too concerned about that right now.
> > I just don't want to install from scratch right now. I want to attempt to
> > upgrade _if_ the system is designed to do so.
> >
> > Any thoughts on this?
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> > Scott Patten
