Kaj, Having just done this one myself and feeling very proud to have found the solution in the errata without Femme having to tell me first, I can assure you that geekiness is not a requirement. Just download the patch from:
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/patches/8.2/k6/patch.pl copy it to a DOS floppy, press F1 at the start of the install, type "patch" with the floppy in the drive and it all works. No beers required, but one wouldn't hurt! cheers Brian On Fri, 2002-04-26 at 08:26, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > On Thursday 25 April 2002 11:41 pm, civileme wrote: > > 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 > > > >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 > > Good heavens, Civileme ! - But thank you anyway. Maybe I'll give it a try > when nobody watches. Right now i'll stick with 8.1 and keep a very low > profile. > > Kaj Haulrich > Denmark > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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