Kaj Haulrich wrote: >Hello list..... > >Now I'm having a problem. Hitherto every Mandrake install from 7.0 --> 8.1 >succeeded flawlessly (..well, sort of). Yesterday I received my pre-ordered >set of 8.2 (7 CD's). As usual (after backing up everything to CD), I shuffled >the first CD into the cupholder and invited some friends to watch the best >distro ever doing an install of a full-featured linux-sytem..... > >Well, I have to admit that the laughing were on their side ! > >About 1 minute into the install-process, after deleting the old partitions, >and allocating new ones as usual, the message appears : > >"depslist.ordered mismatch against hdlist files" > >....Certainly a very informative statement, eh ? > >Well, I handed my friend a round of cool beers and proclaimed : > >"No problem, I'll just let it check for bad blocks : same result ! >Then I tried ALL the filesystems : Reiser, XFS, JFS, ext3 and finally, ext2. >To no avail. Still the same depslist-stopper. > >Hmmm... maybe a bad CD ? - Well , out went the CD and into my laptop. And >you know what ? - No problems ! - Only my laptop is from the jurassic age and >accordingly a bit reluctant. But it works. Conclusion : the CD is OK ! > >Another round of beers. > >Then another try at the workstation : somehow I succeded in getting past the >"informative" message and into the part where one can select the packages. >And guess what : I was offered to install 4 MB ! - Nothing else, nill, nada, >zero ! > >Now, after another round of beers, I figured that somehow the hardware was >exhausted and had died.... Nope ! > >Just to prove my point I injected the Mandrake 8.1 CD : What a relief ! >-Everything installed in about 20 minutes. - Everything ! > >Well, now I'm back in ye ole 8.1 and happy again. But my friends will never - >ever - convert to linux. They prefer free beers. > >Kaj Haulrich >Denmark > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > See 8.2 errata. Someone inadvertantly put i686 architecture designatrors on a batch of rpms and it causes problems.
www.linux-mandrake.com click on security then click on errata. Civileme
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