Hmmm - I'm having the same problem, but your solution doesn't work for me. I've tried to make both a CD-, network- and HD-install. All of them gives me the same reply: "Could not uncompress...". When I press OK during the CD-install, I'm told that I should reboot my computer. With the to other installs I'm just given the option to select another directory or server for the installtion files...

Any other suggestions???

I've split your post into its own thread so it will get some attention!

Did you burn your own cd's? md5sum check good? Good media? Slow down the burn speed?

I have encountered that warning with bad burns and bad ram.

Could be a bad iso you downloaded ...
or I had the same prompt until I owrked out that the leading / needs to be specified in the install url.

I can t remember exactly but if you mess about with the host and location with host/ and host and /location and location (in the boxes) it might just be this, it needs to be exact else it ends up looking for

myotherpc:///adirwiththeinstall (notice extra /)

I checked the ISOs, they're ok.

During the HD-install i checked the log (by pressing ALT+F3), and it said:

mounting /dev/hda1 on /tmp/hdimage as type ext2
Total memory: 512Mb
trying to load /tmp/image/Mandrake/base/mdkinst_stage2.bz2 as a ramdisk
reading compressed ramdisk: DATA_ERROR_MAGIC
unsetting automatic

I wondered if the hdimage dir in the mount vs. the image dir in the load statement had anythin to do with it...?

Yikes, thats not good....
Exactly what and where did you dload ? Perhaps this is a cooker version ?? (development) and the installer hasnt been tested becuase the testers usually play with individual packages ??

Oh big mistake... i checksumed the wrong ISOs... Don't know how that could happen?!
There was an error on the CD1 that I used. Sorry for the trouble!!!

Morten

It's no trouble! Half of working with a problem is speaking with someone else about it. two heads (or 5,000 heads) are better than one.