Not sure if this is kosher; I am responding to my own posting, primarily
to save someone effort. I did look up and found a windows (actually
DOS) version of md5 which I can use. I also found a site which has the
32 bit checksum listed. So tonight I plan to run that on the CD1 iso of
the Mdk 8.2. If that goes well, will continue. I must say I am puzzled
about the "failure of Insmod" message; if the option "patch" runs the
Insmod utility and it is searching for kernel compatibility but the new
kernel is not yet installed, it would seem to me it is bound to fail. I
may try the -f option to force it, but I am guessing this is dangerous.
Alvin Murphy wrote:
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.
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