civileme wrote: > frazer wrote: > >> As you might guess im new to linux.How many times have you heard that >> >> My problem is with Mandrake 8.2 .Im trying to install onto a pentium >> 3. 450Mhz. 12 Gb Hard drive 128Mb ram.The drive was partitioned with >> Partition Magic.Windows 98 being on the drive also.The PM wizard >> guided me through the process,moving my windows files to a new >> partition 5Gb in size.Which works fine and also creating about a 4 >> or bit more Gb partition for linux which i believe needs two separate >> partitions >> >> I also installed boot magic if that matters?.After booting from the >> first CD (theres three as it was a download off the net) and starting >> ok with the welcome to linux press f1 or f3 i think it is, to install >> it goes ok for a while until the message :Error loading program into >> memory could not uncompress second stage ramdisk.This is probably >> "an" hardware error while reading the data this maybe caused by a >> hardware failure or a linux kernal bug in then says press ok but >> nothing happens.Iv have tried the four or five commands that are >> recommended in the help file "text" "Expert and so on but all cause >> the same problem.If its a hardware problem wouldn't it be causing >> windows problems? Should i try creating the partitions again or >> would you recommend formatting the whole hard disk and starting >> fresh. i dont really want that.Thats about it i think. >> >> If you cant help Thankyou anyway. >> >> >> >> > >> >> >> Frazer > > Well, you have a media-vs-drive error on the CD drive. It could be > media (the CD) or it could be the drive or it could be the speed at > which you are running the drive. It has little or nothing to do with > your partitioning. It may have been a download or burning problem as > well but also it may be that you are using a CDRW which generally > makes lousy boot CDs, CD-R being a much better media for iso files. > > Did you do a google search for md5sum and get the windows equivalent > to check the disk against the md5sum provided on the web? If your iso > files check with the md5sum, then we can eliminate the possibility of > a transmission error and move on to either media or CD drive. My > personal luck has not been good with downloads and CDs. GEnerally I > download an iso and burn at three different speeds and try all three > and generally I have ONE of those three that will read reliably on > another drive. Sometimes CDs I burn on a CDRW won't read cleanly on > the CDRW drive itself. I have four burners and about a dozen test > drives PD, CD, and DVD, and I get maybe 10% of my burns to read on all > of them, and at least 40% of my burns will not read cleanly (data > error somewhere) on at least half of my drives. > > By the way, best approach with PM is to make only the windows > partition and leave the rest of the drive unpartitioned, and ditch > BootMagic altogether, because Diskdrake can make partitions for you > and LILO and GRUB can boot just about any system there is and the > mandrake tools for configuring them gives you an easy GUI. If you use > BootMagic, you can expect to spend a lot of time fixing what BootMagic > does, and the number of folk here who know enough about it here to > help will be much smaller than the number who can advise you about > LILO or GRUB. > > > > Civileme > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > >until the message :Error loading program into memory could not uncompress >second stage ramdisk
Does the installer have any USB devices ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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