On Wed, 2003-01-01 at 13:35, Jason Snyder wrote: > Hi, > Between me, my brother, and one of my friends who have tried to install mdk > 9.0, we have all failed to get mdk 9.0 to install and function properly on at > least one of our computers. > > One computer that I tried to install mdk 9.0 on is a Mini-ITX system using a > 800 MHz VIA C3 processor. The motherboard does not have a floppy port (I > think the chipset itself has a controller, but the board doesn't have the > connectors for it), I didn't feel like buying an IDE based superdrive, I > couldn't get USB Zip boot to work properly with mdk 9.0 (the motherboard BIOS > supports USB Zip boot), mdk 9.0 does not have the alternate install image on > CD #2 as mdk 8.2 does, so I was left with CD install. The problem I came > across with this is that instead of prompting for another CD to install more > packages, it just errored out complaining that it couldn't find the package > it wanted. I tried going to the console and manually umounting the CD and > mounting another CD, but I still couldn't get it to find packages. I > eventually gave up and just installed mdk 8.2.
And there is an answer! or rather two! one is in the errata section of the mdk website at. http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/errata.php3#viac3 The other method...(the one I used.) came from Todd.. and to qoute him. When selected packages start to install select "details" to see what package is being installed. When you see that glibc is installed switch to the console (CTRL ALT+F2) and remove the directory. Note that /lib/i686 refers to the root of your installation, which will be mounted somewhere under /tmp (I think). I can verify that is under temp and that you do have about a minute or so to remove or mv (standard commands) the i686 directory. It worked like a charm... Problem is that you have an i586 cpu that gets recognized as an i686 that still has i486 arch characteristics. *whew* I will tell you that once it does install it work a thousand percent better than 8.2 all hardware is detected and I've had no problem with it so far. Hardware or software. James > > The CD ejection problem persisted with all other computers, but the other > computers could use 1.44 MB floppy drives, so we did either network or hard > disk installs on them. > > My brother tried to install mdk 9.0 on an old Intel P-III 700 MHz system > (dual capable Tyan 440BX m/b w/ one CPU). After my brother failed to get mdk > 9.0 to do a CD install, he loaded the files onto his hard drive and did a > hard drive install. He got it to install, but then it crashed when he tried > to get updates over the Internet. (He has a cable modem at his house and a > firewall that also acts as a DHCP server for all of his computers.) He then > booted into mdk 9.0, but it kept crashing. He tried to get updates while > running mdk 9.0, but Mandrake's updater program would crash before it got > anywhere. The odd thing about this instability is that the system had been > running Windows ME and mdk 8.1 without any stability problems. (Well at > least nothing beyond what is normal with Windows ME.) Seeing that I managed > to successfully do a network install of mdk 9.0 on my test box (not the > Mini-ITX system), we brought the machine over to my place and I tried to do a > network install. At first I couldn't get his Linksys NIC to talk to my 12 > port SMC switch (a year and a half ago it was a 16 port switch, but one by > one ports are going bad on it), so I dropped a 3Com 3c905C NIC that I had > laying into his system and tried again. This time around the 3c905C was able > to DHCP its address and see the server (HTTP), but it hung trying to load the > second image over the network. I eventually gave up trying to install mdk > 9.0 and just did a network install of mdk 8.2 on my brother's computer. mdk > 8.2 did its network install without a hitch (w/ the 3c905C) and so far has > run stable on the system. The only real problem so far is mdk 8.2's broken > USB mouse support, but that is an easy workaround. > > One of my friends tried to do a CD install of mdk 9.0, but couldn't get it to > work, so he switched to Debian and last I heard he was happy with Debian. (I > thought that Debian was supposed to be more difficult to install, especially > a few months back when he did his install, but it worked better for him than > the mdk 9.0 install.) > > --Jason Snyder-- > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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