On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 08:14, Derek Jennings wrote:
> On Monday 22 Mar 2004 11:23, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> > On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 04:52, Derek Jennings wrote:
> > > On Monday 22 Mar 2004 04:11, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> > > > 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
> > >
> > > Try booting from CD2 and then switch back to CD1 when it asks for the
> > > disc http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/errata.php3
> > >
> > > Bear in mind this is the "Community edition" which means there are still
> > > bugs to be ironed out before 10,0 "Official" is released. Having said
> > > that, my own experience is that 10.0 is very solid and stable. I hope you
> > > like it :-)
> > >
> > > derek
> >
> > Nope - tried that and it didn't work. I suspect it may have something
> > to do with the 2.6 kernel as all of the error messages I saw in Google
> > relating to the specific error message appear to be about the 2.6x
> > kernel. I found the alternate images to boot from floppy using the
> > 2.4.25 kernel but that didn't work either.
> >
> > Thanks anyway. Any other thoughts or work-arounds? - John
>
> Follow up to my last post :-
> Before you try an FTP install you might like to try booting from a boot floppy
> made with the "cdrom.img" from the Cooker/Stable mirror. A new cdrom.img
> went on the mirrors on 19th March. It is possible it might help with your
> problem.
>
> Another workaround might be to boot with one of the alternate images on your
> CDs
> When you first boot from CD1 hit F1 (or Esc I can never remember which) and at
> the prompt enter 'alt1' That will boot you with the 2.2 Boot kernel. Any
> PCMCIA devices will not be detected, but it will install the 2.6 kernel which
> will run at the end of the install process.
>
> derek
Thanks for the suggestions. This seems to be something either Mandrake
of kernel specific.
I did try installing from boot floppy and then CD - it still could not
find the CD.
I eventually copied the CDs to another workstation and did an NFS
install. That worked but I still cannot mount any CD including ones
that I know mounted under Debian and RedHat.
I'm also having trouble with some packages such as the kernel docs,
mandrake docs, tripwire, superfreeswan, etc. They are asking for a CD4
yet there were only three iso images. What is this fourth CD?
At this point, for the sake of time, I'm thinking of heading back to
RedHat. Thanks - John
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