I installed Mandrake 7.2 from the Christmas Linux Format Mag......never had
any bother with it at all. I can only guess it was a corrupt disc you got.
Cheers,
Frank.
On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, you wrote:
> Anybody else installed this yet?
> Tale of woe copied from the scotinstall list. I'm about to try it on a
> laptop myself.
>
> Willie
>
> [scotinstall] Mandrake 7.2 broke my hard drive
> From: Gavin McCord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 16:53:59 +0100
>
>
> I'm hoping it's just a dodgy CD. Or maybe my
> CD-ROM is just past it.
>
> I tried installing the download CD, Willie gave us
> at the meeting. When it got to the package listing
> part, things started getting ropey. On one of
> the consoles, I started getting the "DriveReady
> SeekComplete Error" messages one normally associates
> with a HD failure. There were also msgs pertaining to
> the CD_ROM. After 5 minutes of nothing, I did Ctl-Alt-Del.
>
> When it then got to the HD detection phase, I got
> a primary hard disk failure. Switching the machine
> off and back on, things seemed to be back to normal.
> I did a Slack install, ok. Then I tried Mandrake again,
> and the same probs appeared.
> I just wonder if it's my 4/5 yr old CD-ROM, an error on
> the CD (which looks OK,) or something in the boot image
> Mandrake uses which is a bit flakey.
>
> --
> gav
>
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