Have you verified the integrity of your CD image using md5sum or something
similar (I don't know the Windos equivalent, or even if there is one)?
Perhaps it has not been downloaded correctly and it is damaged. In that case,
you will have to obtain it again somehow (download, buy a CD, etc.).
On Sun, 1 Jul 2001 23:00, Skinky wrote:
> Hello yet again everyone
>
> I have posted this message before, but I'm getting real desperate. This is
> my last attempt at installing Linux as I can't go any further. I don't
> even know what the following error message means, therefore can't find a
> solution (what is a rate?). I've searched and searched the net; this
> mailing list's archives; asked Mandrake Experts (no reply); searched and
> searched some more, but I am STUCK and can't go any further. I'm starting
> to wonder if it is worth the time and effort I have already put into it! I
> have tried six times to intall Mandrake 8.0 but the same error message is
> displayed at the same stage of the install process.
>
> I am STILL trying to install from hard drive. After creating a native
> linux partition and booting with a boot disk (hd.img), I selected install
> to own partition (linux native partition). All goes well for a while and
> then an error message comes up:
>
> Error
>
> An error occurred
> missing rate for "<!-- Beginning of:
> /www/htdocs/images/HEADER/dirheader.html -->"
>
> Can anyone tell me what this means? I went back into Windows and searched
> thru the entire "Linux" directory of files that I downloaded for a file
> named htdocs or dirheader.html but found nothing. I'm kind of at a loss as
> to what to do. I've search thru the net for clues but again found nothing.
>
> Any help would be very much appreciated.
> Thanks.
>
> Skinky
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