allright, just wanted to post the solution to the problem :
the trick is, to use commandline ftp and explicitely
download the .iso file as 'image' (or 'binary').
gets rid of the
'could not uncompress second stage ram disk' error.
just thought i drop this in here.
thanks to everybodies trying to help.
ingo
On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Ingo P. Korndoerfer wrote:
>
> i have been using mandrake for a while now. even the ppc version
> on my imac. awesome.
>
> however, i can't get 8.0 installed on my laptop.
>
> i get the old
>
> 'can not uncompress second stage ram disk' error.
>
> i have found the following suggestions in various postings :
>
> - download a new iso file and burn a new cd
> ==> done that. doesn't help.
>
> - download the cdrom.img, dd it onto /dev/fd0 and boot from there.
> ==> done that. doesn't help.
>
> - make a boot floppy under windows and boot from there.
> ==> done that. doesn't help.
>
> - install from windows
> ==> that installs linux on my windows partition, doesn't it ?
> don't want that. have old files to work with on my linux partition.
> and other reasons.
>
> - i also tried the alternative cdrom%%%.img in the alternatives directory.
> to no avail. now, the next thing to try would maybe be to give certain
> options upon booting ? just which ?
>
> please, can any of the experts have mercy with me for posting an
> install question in the expert list and give me a hint ?
>
> 1000 thanks
>
> ingo
>
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