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Hello. I'm not exactly a total newbie. But I'm certainly not an expert.
I've been using MDK since I bought a boxed set of MDK 8.2 which
installed just fine on this PC...
Then when I upgraded to MDK 9.1 I bought the boxed powerpack set and had my
first experience with a Linux that thinks it successfully installs right
up to the point of removing the installation media and rebooting, only to
have all the boot text look normal until it's time to remount the root
filesystem in rw mode. immediately after which it seams every remaining
start up function gets a "permission denied error". Which continues
until the system is so looked up it can't even spawn the halt process...
(had to pull the plug, and fsck everything... after EVERY attempt to
boot the new MDK system.) Tried both a "clean install" and an upgrade
over a working copy of MDK 8.2. with the same results.
On that occasion I gave the publicly available download version a try
which did install.
But when I tried a public download version of MDK 10.0 I had my second
experience with the same exact symptoms...
I like having at least 2 reasonably current (but different) Linux distros
installed so that I have a good fall-back in case I manage to "break"
something. just by updating the wrong package... And I'm feeling like
it's past time to back up my Fedora with something more up to date than MDK 9.1
So I just downloaded the MDK 10.1 powerpack {6 cd set} iso files from a
Mandrake club "silver" download mirror. The "md5sum" values for all 6 iso's
matched the ones listed on the same download site. But when I try to
install it I get the same problem again...
I suppose this could be a hardware problem, but this system has had no
such problems with RH 9, Fedora Core 1, or Fedora Core 2. And it didn't
happen with some of the older MDK versions...
The PC has 256meg of ram, 2 ide hard drives and an ide dvd-rom plus an ide
cd burner. it has a 1 GHz P III CPU And a rage128 graphics adapter. And
the Mainboard is an MSI "694T"
I'm afraid the hardware manuals are missing, and I'm not a hardware
tech, But if it could possibly help figure this out, I'll gladly provide
any hardware info you can tell me how to extract from the PC.
I'm currently downloading the 4 iso Mandrakelinux-10.1-Official-Download
set now from a MDK club "standard" mirror and will give it a try before
I give up on installing/upgrading newer versions of MDK.
I'll post the results of that attempt to this thread.
I tried searching for "reboot permission denied" in the " Bodies for
list 'mandrake-newbie'" at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-newbie
and got "hits" going back as far as "2001-10-08" But nothing that seams
to be talking about MDK systems that really can't boot due to some kind
of permission problem that the installation program doesn't see.
If anyone has a clue what could be causing this, I'd love to hear it.
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| ^ Joe (theWordy) Philbrook
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