I've installed Slackware and Redhat on other computers in the past, and a
friend recommended Mandrake so I thought I'd give it a try. I'm trying to
put Mandrake on an empty partition of a computer where the first three
partitions are devoted to Windows NT.
I downloaded the 7.1 iso CD-R image file and burned an installation CD.
Then I created a boot disk and rebooted. The installation seemed to go
fine. I created a simple partition setup -- one 200MB swap partition and a
4000MB+ root partition.
The very next step after that is choosing packages to install. I get the
error:
Looking for available packages
An error occurred: Missing basesystem package
Then it goes back to the partition menu. If I click DONE I get another menu:
Package Group Selection
* Miscellaneous
* Individual Package Selection
Regardless of which of these choices I select, or both, or neither, when I
click to go to the next step I get:
An error occurred
Illegal division by zero
At first I guessed that I'd mis-burned the CD, I mean "missing basesystem
package" sure sounds like it can't find a file on the CD... so I rebooted
to NT and burned a new copy of the CD-R. The second disk exhibited the same
problems as the first.
So now I'm thinking that the iso image file itself is corrupt, but after
searching lots of newsgroups, I can't find anyone else who's having the
same problem, so somehow I doubt that's it.
Is it looking for the "basesystem package" on the CD? Anyone have any ideas
as to what's happening?
