On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 10:42, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Friday September 12 2003 07:49 am, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > > Is there anything which I missed during last 10 days? I just > > received my 3 CDs of RC2 and am now in my thirteenth attempt to > > install it on a box where I installed 9.1 just the other week > > without problems. So there should be no hardware related issues. > > > > First crash (keyboard lights blinking) during formatting of the > > root partition (size 3GB ext3, /home is 5GB ext3)). Next time it > > formatted without error. > > > > Second crash during individual package selection. Dropped out of > > the graphics screen and shut down. > > > > Third crash during installation of packages (after about 5% crash > > with keyboard lights blinking) > > > > Fourth crash during switch from package selection to installation > > (screen frozen, no keyboard access) > > > > and so on.... Always at various different points. > > > > Twelwth crash right after selection of keyboard (screen frozen, > > keyboard no access). > > > > Again: 9.1 installation is on same harddisk and I did not change > > any hardware parts. 9.1 is running without errors (did some image > > editing with large memory access and 1 kernel compilation so > > far). > > > > wobo in any of these crashes was any info available on alt+f3? have you tried watching the consol messages as you install? atleast it will give you a good clue if your CDrom reader is the problem,
> > Crashes at differnet spots certainly require 'hardware' to be > included as a cause. Even if the hardware is the CD's, or your > drives ability to read 'em. Attached is the RC2 md5sums. You can > check with 'md5sum /mnt/cdrom' or 'md5sum /dev/hd?' in a console. > Be patient, it'll probly take a minute or two before the result > appears. > > 9725a5942d84390c691d78f95084b5ee MandrakeLinux-9.2rc2-CD1.i586.iso > 78374f7ff4335f5b46b3cd7d8e2f3e94 MandrakeLinux-9.2rc2-CD2.i586.iso > 70de3baa4a1e3f3c0229bed38b237d8a MandrakeLinux-9.2rc2-CD3.i586.iso > > If the md5sums don't check, or you suspect your CD drive is the > cause, d/l the hd.img, dd it to a floppy, copy the CD's you have to > HDD, an try'n install that way. -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Mandrake HowTo's & More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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