CD lens cleaners often do more harm than good to drives. Try using some better quality CDs. If that doesn't work, buy a can of compressed air and give your drive a bit of a squirt to dislodge dirt that may have built up. On Fri, 21 Sep 2001 11:04:15 +0200, "Marius Schrecker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does that mean that the installer found packages it couldn't read from the > CD (hence installing a smaller number of packages helped)? > > Strange that the problem appeared both on the 8.0 and freq. attempts, albeit > with cheap CD's and an old CDdrive. Perhaps I should invest in both a lens > cleaner and some better CD's before the next attempt?? > > Marius > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "John W" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 11:01 AM > Subject: Re: [newbie] MDK 8.x installer > > > > Most often that problem is just a bad CD. > > > > John W > > > > > > At 10:08 AM 9/21/01 +0200, you wrote: > > >Hello, > > > > > > With the release of 8.1 just around the corner, and with my 8.0 > > > version badly battered after a failed attempt to upgrade to KDE 2.2, I > am > > > looking forward to a partial re-install as soon as practically possible. > > > > > > > > > My box is a Compaq deskpro 6000 p.pro 180 (don't laugh), 106MB RAM > > > and about 10 GB of HD spread over 3 IDE disks and about 10 partitions > > > including doze and swap. > > > > > > The trouble is that the installer for 8.0 and freq. June. crashes > > > somewhere in the package analysis procedure giving a 'no hdlists found'. > > > The only way around this seemed to be doing a minimum install on freshly > > > formatted partitions (minimum number of packages on a minimum number of > > > partitions), then mounting the extra partitions, /var, /usr/local, /home > > > etc. afterwards, and installing the extra packages from software > installer. > > > > > >Is seems that the problem is either in diskdrake or the package manager > > >since avoidance is dependant on choosing a small enough number of > packages > > >to install, and the installer falls back to diskdrake on hitting the > > >problem, At this point, however, I have to abort the installation and > > >start again. > > > > > >Is this a known bug in 8.0, or is it just me being stupid? > > > > > >If it's a bug is it fixed in 8.1, or is there a better workaround than > > >mine (which is complicated and unreliable)? > > > > > >Cheers > > >Marius > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > > > -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. "There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence." -- Jeremy S. Anderson
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