Pzatch Posted January 13, 2004 Report Share Posted January 13, 2004 Are you trying a harddrive install or did you burn the DL version to disk? Just because something works on one MB doesn't meen it will work an another. And unless you have a MB older than 4 years you should have sometype of plug and play option in the bios. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urza9814 Posted January 13, 2004 Author Report Share Posted January 13, 2004 "And unless you have a MB older than 4 years you should have sometype of plug and play option in the bios." ...this comp is 4 years old...like...98...99 :-P my other is just over a year old though...and it doesn't have it either :-S as for what kind of install I'm trying...can't do harddrive, because it's not big enough for all the files...tried CD...same prob...tried hard drive on my other comp...same prob...as with cd...the only thing I was able to do was a network install from the DL FTP sites... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pzatch Posted January 13, 2004 Report Share Posted January 13, 2004 What files did you get? from what Mandrake mirror did you get the ISO's. Each Iso should fit on a cdrom. None are over 700 MB. If they are you have the wrong download. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urza9814 Posted January 13, 2004 Author Report Share Posted January 13, 2004 (edited) uh...mine's about 7 and a half gigs :-S I went to the 'download' site...click 'mandrake 9.2', and went to the first USA/Pennsylvania mirror...what'd I do wrong?????????? :-P [edit] ohhhhh! I wassupposed to get theISO images, right? :-P Edited January 13, 2004 by Urza9814 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidzoo Posted January 13, 2004 Report Share Posted January 13, 2004 Did you just get files? Or did you get the 3 .iso images? I could see the files themselves maybe being that big, but not likely. I usually go to the mirror at ftp.nluug.nl simply because it seems faster than most of the mirrors here in the states. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urza9814 Posted January 13, 2004 Author Report Share Posted January 13, 2004 I guess I got the files...there were about 4 folders of RPMS...each 1-2 gigs...that's how it wasthat big...I'll try the RIGHT way now :-P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urza9814 Posted January 13, 2004 Author Report Share Posted January 13, 2004 (edited) the connection to the server keeps getting reset every timeI try to DL!!! WTF?!?!?!? [edit] it crashed...and Itried again...and it's working...it says an hour left...but I gotta got to sleep...within the next half hour...takes me a loooong time to fall asleep...so yea, I'll try it before school tommrow, hope it works... Edited January 13, 2004 by Urza9814 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidzoo Posted January 13, 2004 Report Share Posted January 13, 2004 I would say keep trying, or switch mirrors till you find something that works. That's the great thing about any Linux distro, there's often way more than 1 place to download something from. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pzatch Posted January 13, 2004 Report Share Posted January 13, 2004 Glad you finally figured it it out though. Post back after the next attempt. Someplace in the Faqs or tips and tricks section should be good instructions on burning the iso's. good luck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urza9814 Posted January 13, 2004 Author Report Share Posted January 13, 2004 hahaha! I ran outta room on my hard drive! lol...that's just sad...well, that set me back about 8 hours (school)... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannonfodder Posted January 13, 2004 Report Share Posted January 13, 2004 Just do one cd.. and get the routine down.. Download the ISO Do a checksum on the ISO Burn the ISO If you don't know what checksum's are, suggest you read some of the faqs. You are looking for a little program called md5sum. It will validate for youi that your download is 100% correct byte for byte. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urza9814 Posted January 13, 2004 Author Report Share Posted January 13, 2004 (edited) jesus! when you said it shouldn't be over 700Mb, I thought you meant TOTAL! :-P BTW - what do I do with these after I burn 'em? if I have to install them using a boot floppy...then I just wasted another day... Edited January 13, 2004 by Urza9814 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urza9814 Posted January 14, 2004 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2004 (edited) aight, I think I've almost got it here...I took both hard drives from this comp, and put them in the comp it'll install on...I got to the update part and the install failed...so the next time I clicked no for updates...it finished...but I still can't boot linux...though it's showing the boot menu thing...here's what I've done and what errors I've got: booted into: linux: loading bar got to about 9/10 and froze...screen got a little messed up (static line running through it at the loading bar...I took a pic if for some reason you need it...but I doubt that's important)...I then rebooted into: Linux-nonfb: modprobe: insmod usb-ohc [i think...can't quite read it] failed. modprobe: insmod ehci-hcd failed. /dev/hdb6: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY (i.e., without -a or -p options) Failed to check filesystem. Do you want to repair the errors? [i said yes] everying seemed ok... Linux: boot failed booted into failsafe, ran that fsck: several errors saying: illegal block #___ in inode ___. CLEARED I then ran fsck again: illegal block #___ in inode ___. CLEARED Free blocks count wrong for group #___ (____, counted=____) Fix(y)? [i said yes] linux still wouldn't boot; ran it AGAIN: no errors and again no errors linux-nonfb: /dev/hdb6 had several errors; all said FIXED it auto rebooted linux: failed to boot anyways, I can get into terminal with the failsafe...I can log in...so, unless you have a better idea...is there a way to reinstall linux from terminal??? Edited January 14, 2004 by Urza9814 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidzoo Posted January 14, 2004 Report Share Posted January 14, 2004 Sounds like something got messed up in the install. Pop in the first disk for 9.2 and boot from it. Choose to upgrade (or repair, can't remember if that is there or not) and just go through and don't select any new packages. See if that helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urza9814 Posted January 14, 2004 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2004 I can't! I can't use any boot floppys...they don't work at all...so unless there's a way to do that from windows or terminal, I can't...If I get time I'll try the other comp again...but my brother's on that a lot...last time I needed to use it it took me 3 days :-S...mebbe tommrow morning if I don't sleep through my alarm though... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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