I needed to rebuild one of our test security gateways and after
experimenting with RedHat, Debian and Slackware, I wanted to give
Mandrake 10.0 a try. I was initially very impressed but I am having a
devil of a time just installing.
The test device is an old e-machines 400Mhz Celeron with 64 MB Ram and a
6.4 GB hard drive. I can successfully install RedHat and Debian from
CD.
I first tried a CDROM install using the ISO images I downloaded and
burned. The system booted perfectly fine but when it tried to access
files on the CDROM, I generated the following errors:
<4>hdc: SAMSUNG CD-ROM SC-140, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
.
.
.
<4>hdc: ATAPI 40x CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, DMA
<6>Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
<5>SCSI subsystem initialized
<4>hdc: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
<4>hdc: command error: error=0x50
<4>end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 64
<4>isofs_fill_super: bread failed, dev=hdc, iso_blknum=16, block=16
I thought it might be a bad CD even though it appeared to work when I
tried it on a different computer. I did find that if I booted the test
computer into the current Debian installation, I could not manually
mount the CD. So I downloaded the ISO again from a different site,
checked the MD5 checksum and burned a new CD. Same results.
Based upon some other information I found, I tried booting from CD2
instead -- same results.
I tried a text installation -- same results.
I then thought I'd mount the CD on a different computer and do an NFS
installation. That started to work but, after a while, it aborted with
a signal 7.
I tried an NFS installation in text mode -- it made it 60+% of the way
and then aborted with a signal 7 error.
So far I am striking out even though it appears that one of Mandrake's
features is ease of installation. Oh, I also tried cleaning the CD lens
in case it was dirty. Same problem. Can someone tell me what I am
doing wrong? I'd really like to give Mandrake a try.
My apologies if this has already been asked. I did not see a way to
search the archives late than 2003-11. How does one search the most
current postings to this mail list?
Thanks, all - John
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John A. Sullivan III
Chief Technology Officer
Nexus Management
+1 207-985-7880
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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