Hi Jose, >Your burner could be going, the interface may be giving it heartaches, >the Windows DLL hell could be rearing it's ugly head. IO.SYS in Winblows >could be corrupt, etc. etc. etc.
This is not my first time downloading Linux in Windows box. Previously I have downloaded RH 7.0, Mandrake-Linux 7.0, 7.2 ISO Images etc. and burnt CDs in Windows box without problem. The Mandrake-Linux 7.2 CDs now in my possession were also downloaded and burnt in a Windows Box. They work great without problem. My burner is rather new purchased about 3 weeks ago. OK, tomorrow I will change an older burner of slower speed to try. I can set up a Mandrake-Linux 7.2 box running in smooth condition to download Mandrake-Linux 8.1 ISO Images. But the problem is the HD being too small, only 3.3G insufficient to hold 3 ISO Images (approx 648 MB x 3). Hereinbelow are my test results ; I burnt CDs with those ISO Images downloaded from different ftp sites, disregarding whether md5sum matching or un-matching 1) Burning at 2X speed on 650 MB CD can't solve the problem 2) Burning at 8X speed on 700 MB CD as recommended by Charles Charles A Edwards also can't solve the problem. However my discovery is quite interesting. CDs burnt with above methods can be used for installation (even md5sum un-matching). All of them went through without problem. After installation completed Mandrake-Linux 8.1 started properly but the mouse died. At time of installation it was alive. It was a A4 Tech 3 button-wheel PS/2 mouse. The installing program selected PS/2 standard mouse automatically and I was not allowed to change. If changed the monitor screen started to blink and I could not change it back to PS/2 standard mouse. Then the PC will re-start automatically. After Mandrake-Linux 8.1 started, in KDE I brought up HardDrake window and found the mouse there under HardDrake List. At re-boot the PC hanged during kill process with following warning pop-up ............. ................. Mainloop return consoleInit : no such device or address INIT : no more left in this runlevel Then the PC hanged compelling me to force-reset the PC. Mandrake-Linux 8.1 started properly again but the mouse still died. I tested both "re-boot" and "halt" options. The exiting results were the same. Another interesting point is CDs thus burnt can be cross-used for installation. Un-matching md5sum became un-important. P.S. My PC, hard disc and CDROM proved in good condition. Mandrake-Linux 7.2 can be installed and run properly in the same PC and hard disc B.R. Stephen Liu -JMS >|-----Original Message----- >|From: Stephen Liu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >|Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 10:12 AM >|To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >|Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >|Subject: RE: [expert] Corrupted files -RPM >| >| >|Hi Jose, >| >|OK. I will follow your advice to burn the CDs at 2x and will >|inform you >|the outcome of installation later. >| >|I got 3 sets of ISO Images in my hard disc, some of them with >|matched MD5 >|sum and other with un-matched ones. I will test all of them again by >|burning CDs at 2x. Hopefully I can come up with some result. >|I will post >|the same to the list at completion so that other guys can get some >|information avoiding going the painful way as I did. >| >|But one thing I could not understand why I got no problem with >|Mandrake 7.2 >|before but lot of problem with 8.0 and 8.1. >| >|B.R. >|Stephen Liu
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