A Dilluns 13 Maig 2002 02:44 am, v�reu escriure: > Well, unfortunately for some reason I couldn't get Mandrake 8.2 > installed over Redmond, and I really don't know why. If I use a > graphical installation it goes OK until a point where the screen > clears and displays "Out of Range" (whatever that means). Trying the > textual mode I got I/O errors. There is obviously some sort of > installation log, but I don't know the location or name of it or how > to access it.
Try going to the virtual consoles available through ctr-alt-F1 to F6 Is your cd-rpm drive OK? Is the HDD OK? are the IDE cables properly attached? > This is very strange because this is on a computer that > just recently had Redhat 7.2 and Redmond Linux installed on it > without problems (although I don't know how to install my DVD player > and a few other peripherals in the box). So I tried to install a copy > of Redhat 7.0 which was included in a tutorial book on Linux I'd > picked up at the bookstore. IT ALSO HAD I/O errors and stated it > could not do anything with whatever happened. This is so very strange > that if you have some suggestions, I'd love to hear them. I'm Bad cd-rom drive, problems with the IDE cables? Do those CDs work in other computers? > actually using the very computer which caused these errors right now > with a Windows 98 drive in it (I have my hard drives in drawers which > lock into a case in my box which allows me to play with Linux while > protecting my Win98 system.) It is not very good for hard disks to be moved around, specially when very hot. Hard disks in drawers get a lot hotter than regular harddisks. Also, the connections tend to go back (I've used them before... with the result of 1 hdd dead, and 2 different hdd-drawers gone bad). > Very, very strange. As far as I'm aware > none of my hardware or Bios settings have been changed since Redhat > 7.2 and Redmond were more or less successfully installed on my Linux > hard drive. It's all very, very strange indeed.---AL Johnson It seems that it can be a bigger problem than a flacky CD. > ============== > P.S. I appreciated the comparison link between the various Mandrake > 8.2 versions. I suppose it's even possible that both the disks I > tried are bad, but considering both of them have never been used > before I suppose it's possible. You can always check it in another machine, see that happens. Salut, Sinner -- http://www.ibiblio.org/sinner/ Linux User # 89976 Running on Mandrake 8.2 - Kernel 2.4.18-6mdk Linux Machine # 38068 _______________________________________________ TriLUG mailing list http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ: http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html
