When attempting to reinstall after receiving this email I suspected possible
harddrive sector corruption, so this time through I had the installer check
the partitions for bad blocks. This process seemed to take ages and ages
(nearly 20-30 mins[is this normal on a p2 450?]) and then finally punched
through to package selection where I again selected all packages hoping that
the possibly bad blocks on my drive were now marked and would be skipped.
however once again I received the same errors at the same point in the
installation. Tomorrow I am going to try installing without the seemingly
faulty package and if it manages to go through ill know that I have a faulty
CD. if it fails once again but the next package up, I am fairly certain my
harddrive is the problem and will get a replacement together. Is there any
way to tell whether or not my drive is faulty?
I'll keep you posted, thanks for the tips.
Ryan Le Gros
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan LaBine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 10:35 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Installation
> Ryan; During selection of partitions, did you alter the size of your swap
> partition? This can have bad effects on your installation. Try using the
> "Reccommended" installation method, then repeat installation using
> "Customised" - Update , not "Install" . Remove any packages you don't want
on
> your system prior to doing the Customized Update. What you need here is a
> stable installation first, then add the extra's that you want. Have you
tried
> doing your previous installations exactly the same way each time? If so,
you
> may have a bad sector on your hard drive, and the same package is causing
the
> same problem each time because it's on the bad sector. In which case it
only
> appears that this package is causing your problem, but in fact the drive
is
> the problem. Can you get by without the seiko printpro package? At least
for
> now? I'd like to suggest that you install as per above suggestions. When
the
> PC is running smoothly ( a day or so ) do the updates ( DrakConf / Update
> software ), and then do the Seiko / Printpro package. Something else,...If
> you have a second PC connected to the Internet, find a reliable Update
mirror
> site, and then DOWNLOAD the updates, don't let the "Update Software"
utility
> do it. Burn the updates to CD, and use "Kpackage" to update the P2 450
> system. Make sure to use the "Check Dependencies" option in Kpackage when
> doing the updates. I've found some minor problems with the updater, where
it
> doesn't always install library files related to random packages, but
Kpackage
> will warn you if any package needs additional files before allowing you to
> install anything. Download the libraries or whatever it needs and install
> them first. Hope this info helps.
>
> --
> Dan LaBine
> Maximum LAN's Ltd.
> Registered Linux User #190712
>
>
