First , it can be quite frustrating to go through an install as you did.
two things come to mind to ask though,
were the cd's given you copies of downloaded iso's? or original cd's ?
copies can often be defective or at least less than perfect, and RH disks that are not perfect
can also do much the same. also if the cd drive isn't perfect, or misreads data , any OS would give you
problems either immediately, or in time. I've always liked that fact that Mandrake installs require good
equiptment ( and I don't mean new, just properly working ) to continue, because it has helped me find
problem equiptment quickly.
Before you give up ( hopefully you haven't yet ) try another cd drive, and or new/origianl disks ( if they weren't ).
Mike
Guy Rouillier wrote:
I've run Redhat up till now, and at a coworker's urging, decided to give--
Mandrake 9 a try. I have pretty old equipment at home, including a 2x
CD-ROM, so the install took quite awhile (I recently purchased a
higher-speed rewriteable off eBay - hasn't arrived yet.) Turns out this old
CD-ROM apparently had trouble reading the CD-Rs my coworker supplied. At a
couple points on disks 2 and 3, I got a popup dialog telling me it was
unable to read a package, continue? I figured no big deal, I can live
without those packages - the whole first CD went without error, so I thought
all the system files would be okay. Well, after install took 2 hrs to go
through all 3 CDs, it then popped up a message saying "Errors detected in
one or more packages" (approximate wording - I didn't write it down). It
then jumped back to the start of the installation process!!! Didn't
configure root or additional user, etc, so the 2-hr process it just went
through was useless.
I then went back through install and told it to ignore disks 2 and 3, and
got a working system. But I'd like to suggest to Mandrake if they lurk here
to either (1) abort the install as soon as they know it is unrecoverable, or
(2) finish configuration if errors are detected only in non-essential
packages. This was a very frustrating intro to Mandrake.
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