yr2alex

I understand what you did but this was never necessary in any of my previous MDK Installations so why now??? :huh: :unsure:

no didn't think of that one either, what command needs to be invoked in order to use the ??????? I appreciate the help

I tried it but it did not work... I passed the following commands (after hitting f1 of course) unfortunately to no avail noapic nolapic acpi=off then tried linux ide=nodma so what else can I try?

I'll give a try! yr2alex

It would appear that this is not as isolated an incident as I had imagined, maybe it's is true or maybe not. Nevertheless, there is definitely something wrong going on in :mdk: Land. All I want are three good ISO Images so I can enjoy the Distro that I love and put this nightmare behind me. Can anyone point me to a mirror that they know for certain has these incredibly elusive ISO images? Preferably ISO images that someone was able to successfully install MDK 10.1 from. :sad: Please anyone???

Firstly awesome suggestions! Thanks didn't think of it , wish I had before I tossed the cd's I will try it the next time I burn the iso's to a cd (which by the way were burnt at 8x the lowest possible write speed of my ibm netvista here at work and minimal pkg install I might add)- but here is why I don't think it (being what you suggested) will work. The md5sum checks out on 3 different downloads on 3 different machines. To further validify my theory, I attempted to install them on VMware directly from the iso itself (as I have done successfully previously with MDK 10.0 and FC3) using two out of the three sets of iso images that were downloaded from different ftp sites with the exact same results as the first attempt using the media that the iso's were burnt to initially. In doing so I eliminated media as a possibility all together.

First things first this is not an indictment against Mandrake, and despite my (hopefully isolated) experience with Installing MDK 10.1 I have not lost faith in Mandrake. Simply put Mandrake (just Rocks!!) and it is my absolute favorite rpm based distro since 8.2. Now that we have gotten that out of the way here is the dilemma that I am facing... and just in case your are asking- the answer is yes!! I am a newb and I'm proud of it. I will continue being a newb until I decide to stop learning, so there.. After anxiously awaiting and finally learning of it's release (from this forum I might add) I wasted no time in acquiring the first set of iso's in which I used to embark upon this now seemingly tedious journey. Excuse my wordiness and please allow me to vent. I started by going to mandrakes website, Mandrake Download Page to find out exactly where I could obtain the much desired iso's. I had never done that in the past I usually go to my favorite ftp. I figured if any one knew where to find suitable iso images the source of the images would. To my surprize I found my favorite ftp site listed GA-Tech yr2alex's favorite ftp site for linux iso's after clicking on the bottom link. I downloaded the software here at my job intentionally because of the advantage of expontentially increased bandwidth, what would have taken me 2 days between work and (or perhaps the lack of) sleep took me 30min if that. I had a similar experience with the more recent release of FC3 but that is so I won't bother with that. The only reason I bothered to mention that is because I want ed to make sure that every stone was turned as not to repeat the fiasco. In short I checked, checked, checked oh did I mention checked? I used XP at work (hold the flames down) as soon as the iso's completed downloading I immediately grabbed the "Mandrakelinux-10.1-Official-Download-CD.md5.asc" from the ftp site then entered m5sum -c Mandrakelinux-10.1-Official-Download-CD.md5.asc which renders the following: Mandrakelinux-10.1-Official-Download-CD1.i586.iso: OK Mandrakelinux-10.1-Official-Download-CD2.i586.iso: OK Mandrakelinux-10.1-Official-Download-CD3.i586.iso: OK I then took the output and cross matched it with the checksum's located on Mandarkes Download Page, still not satisfied I entered md5sum on each invidual iso image the checksums were and exact match across the board. I'm thinking (Wonderful!!! ), Ha! now the fun begins.. I burned the iso's to cd's using "Nero ultra 6" then as a test started up VMware 4 (I captured screenies I wish I could show them to you) then performed the following steps: 1. pressed enter to install. 2. selected appropriate language. 3. accepted the lic. agreement. 4. chose the desired security level. 5. selected "use free space" for the partitioning portion of the install. Now here is the portion of the install that I thought was very peculiar I'll type it verbatim. 6. the following installation media have been found. if you want to skip some of them, you can unselect them now. X installation cd 1 X installation cd 2 X installation cd 3 X installation cd 4 (kde3.3) (X) denotes preselected choices- I found this especially peculiar because there were only 3 iso's available for download yet 4 were detected :huh: :unsure:, nevertheless, onward. 7. selected desired packages to install. The progress bar starts then without warining the first in a series of errors occurs. "There was an error installing packages: libbeecrypt6-3.1.0-3mdk.i586 Go on anyway?" you are left with two options at this point "yes or no" once one of the two options are buttoned/ bulleted you click "ok". I did just that bulleted "yes" then clicked ok thinking perhaps it would be the last. Wrong, another, then another, then another.I think to myself this can't be right, I've never had any problems with Mandrake's installations for as long as I've been using it. At this point I did the obvious reboot, (oh wait it gets better) when you reboot you are greeted with nothing but a flashing cursor at the top left corner of the screen, nothing more nothing less. I'm unsure but I'm thinking media at this point, I continue on eventually disproving that theory. However before that I thought maybe it's because Mandrake 10.1 doesn't like being installed in a virtual environment (if so, this would be a first, however still a possibilty). I popped the cd into an IBM R40 laptop. system model= 2682F9U, Processor= P4 2Ghz, Hdd= 20GB, Cdrom= teac CD-224e Dvd/CD-R, Mem= 256MB. Same results, now I'm thinking "what the F.A.Q.- is going on?!" I tossed the cd's that I burned this set of images to, thinking bad media, even went as far as deleting the iso's lets start form scratch right? The plot thickens- this time I download the the iso images from a completely different ftp site (like ina a different time zone altogether) ftp site alternative to yr2alex's favorite =( went through the numbers literally, I checked the md5sum checksum of each iso image digit by digit even after they all passed using the same checksum methodology as before. This time however I learned my lesson I wasn't going to burn another iso image to a cd until I was absolutely, unequivically, positively sure that the image was good in other words a successful installation. VMware 4 (which by the way simply r cks) has a special cost effective feature (come on cd's are cheap but not that cheap) that allows you to install an iso image onto a virtual hdd in lieu of using cd. I made a second attempt to install and- no dice so now i'm feeling like and , not to mention betrayed (no emoticon for that one yet). I've come to this determination, Media is fine, iso checks out according to md5sum on 3 three seperate attempts (I'll spare you the last one by cutting it short- failed miserably) and I'm not crazy so this must be by design, right? I certainly hope not .... Mandrake Linux is my favorite, I mean favorite distro, and I want to keep it that way. I am obviously not an expert otherwise I wouldn't have bothered to post. So fulfill ye my joy and please yr2alex

M$ is full of (quoooshhhhh-the sound of toilet flushing), well you have an imagination don't you?

I was thinking about giving gentoo a try, (I imagine the stability of a source based and managed linux os) I have also heard nothing but good things about Arch Linux -but if I had myway I would love to see URPMI install from source and resolve deps as well as it does for rpm pkgs. Hey I am allowed to dream, right?

I thought that this might be good for laughs or better yet let the flaming begin!!!! We actually think our software is far more secure than open source software. It is more secure because we stand behind it, because we fix it, because you actually know who builds it. Nobody ever knows who builds a piece of open source software, where it comes from, who did it. see details at the following: Ballmer on the hot seat again

This is in no way, shape, or form an indictment against Mandrake. To set the record straight let me go on record by stating that since 8.2, Mandrake has been by and by the rpm based distro of choice for me. Nevertheless, if I had a particular wish for an improvement it would be for URPMI to install from source packages and resolve it's dependencies as effectively as it does for rpm packages. I'm curious, what's on your wish list???? P.S. I do apologize if this has been the topic of previous discussion Moved from Software forum to Everything Linux forum - Artificial Intelligence

:mdk: I completely agree, nevertheless, history has repeated itself by revealing a simple truth: desperate people- desperate measures... there is nothing new under the sun. In my humble estimation most of us would probably agree that in living in a free and capitalistic society, people like entre-manure Billy boy Gates should be allowed to take full advantage of selling a product for the sole purpose of gaining revenue even if it means eliminating competition at all cost (sarcasm). The problem with Billy boy is that he wants to completely circumvent the "FREE" more specifically the "freedom of choice philosophy" that governs our democratic society. To make matters worse he intends on using the very Justice system in place to protect us from capitalistic cockroaches to perpetuate his system of injustice by encroaching on our basic right- to make the choice of whether or not to install freely distributable software or proprietary software. In short I'll end on this note, Billy boy I as well as the rest of my Linux comrades sincerely hope that you have dug up two graves...

URPMI it is... Thank you for the info =)

This is nothing more then an inquiry.. I am not implying any dissatisfaction with URPMI. I have no issues, I have used it for all of my updates/installs thus far just want know if there is another basket to put some of my eggs in- Linux is all about choice..... just a few simple questions 1. Is there an alternative to URPMI such as Apt-RPM? Does Apt-RPM work on MDK? 2. If so where is it available? Lastly, how to you config the source.list file to use MDK repos for pkg mgmt? yr2alex- No Jesus No Peace conversely, Know Jesus Know Peace