On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 13:37, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > ed tharp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am 12 Sep 2003 16:03:52 -0400: > > >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, > > As there were different crashes in different situations so there were > different outputs on tty3. Of course I couldn't look when it was a > kernel oops but others were due to some gtk error, some disk-write > error, etc. > > >> 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. > > Checksums I did not look at because I got the CDs from a reliable good > source (in Paris, France) ;-)
A second way to check a disk. (I use and trust this a bit more than just md5sum) cd to the rpms directory on the disk. # rpm -K --nogpg *.rpm | grep NOT What this does is run and check the md5 sum of each individual rpm in the directory. Ignore checking gpg signature, and only return the results if there is a problem. Other nice thing that is a side fallout is that since the rpms make up the vast majority of the CD you'll also get some idea of readability as well. James > > Point is, I tried the installation on my laptop and it worked like a > charm. Found my WLAN card, my nvidia graphics card and installed the > nvidia driver (can play tuxracer!), as well as the SiS sound chip. > > I'm just posting from there. But it wouldn't install on the other > machine. Going to run a memtest this night. > But just last week I installed 9.1 without a prob! Hmm... One thing I have had happen. On locally burned cd's If they are burned at a high (read 12x or faster) speed some of my cdroms don't read them well. The only way I can describe it is as a tracking error. I've also had drives that don't like certain media. (My laptop hates the higher quality Maxell blanks but never burps on the el-cheapo GQ blanks go figure.) > > wobo > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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