[luau] intall problems mdk8.2/K6/Via chipset

[Alvin Murphy]

Hi everybody:  I posted this on Mdk site but thought I might get more 
help locally. As you can see, I am not too familiar with options to use 
during "expert" install.  Also, if I decide to download the iso files 
again, I could use a little help with the checksum method; basically, I 
do not kinow how to use it. Also, I download and burn on a Win98 
macchine because my Linux box does not have a burner. Thus not sure if I 
can use the checksum method on a windows machine or is this something I 
can do later after the iso is burned? Thanks.

I had a very difficult installation of 8.2 and finally had to back out 
and reinstalls 8.1. Then I found the errata notes and saw that two of 
them applied to me since I have a K-6 processor (AMD K6-2 500), but also 
have a Via MVP3 chipset. The instructions are somewhat confusing. For 
one case, one is supposed to use the patch option, for the other case 
one is supposed to use the no pentium option. Since,  generally in 
Linux/Unix one can chain options, I tried booting with the following: 
"expert nopentium patch". This seems to work, although I first had to 
correct one mistake in the directions where they said the patch should 
be on a DOS disk, whereas the install program clearly asks for an EXT2 
disk. This kind of non-connect between instructions and reality does not 
give one a lot of faith in the directions. In any case, I got to the 
screen which asks for the disk with the patch and then asks for options; 
I had no idea what to enter there; first I tried nothing which led to a 
"failure of Insmod". Then I tried adding nopentium as an option which 
led to the same result. So I have no idea how to proceed. This is a CD 
from CheapBytes; so maybe I will tried to learn how to use the sum 
checking method and download the program from the website. Any 
suggestions would be appreciated.