On Wednesday 05 May 2004 08:49 pm, rikona wrote: > Hello newbie, > > My intro to mandrake was 9.1. It installed without a hitch and has run > fine since, with little trouble. It is great! > > Given the above, I installed 10.0 official on another box, expecting > the same. No go, though. Initially the box booted from the CD and I > opted for the basic install, reformatting the existing Win disk. It > stopped a couple of times during the install, and required a couple of > reinstalls to complete. > > MD now boots up, but I get the CL prompt only. Startkde produces a > profusion of "can't open" messages, and it seems to have no "display" > available. It also has no knowledge of the network or card. Ditto for > ports. I can't reinstall again because the CD seems to be fried. It > refuses to stay closed either with or without a disk. If the power is > on, the tray stays open, no matter what. :-(( It's a Toshiba drive. > > The md5's on the disks are OK, and they seemed to work during install, > but the install program seemed to be rather confused. It asked for a > disk, but when I inserted it, it asked for a different one, and then a > different one, and so on, never seeming to find what it needed. > > Any ideas to get 10.0 running would be much appreciated. Also would > like to get the CD running again, too. :-) > > Did I encounter, perhaps, the two extremes in installing Mandrake? :-) It sounds to me like a hardware problem. Can you put a different CDrom drive perhaps? Were the disks made on a different machine and are they the rewritable media? Some CD devices have trouble with CDRW discs. Just a thought. I have Installed 10 official on three different machines now with no problem. One is an older AMD K6 II 333mhz machine with a 12x CDRom I think. Good luck, -- Dennis M. Linux user #180842
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