Aha! same thing happened on my linux 9.0 install marathon. A piece of advice (which I knew before I started but somehow ignored) is to only select the strict minimum number of packages during an install. Makes sense, everything else can pretty much be installed after you have set up a functional system with the basics.
So, OS first, software later. A. Contreras My C&R website: http://www.elnonio.dns04.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Guy Rouillier Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 2:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Failed install 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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