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okay I re-burned disks 1-3 on 1X and tried to install again. Disk one was smooth like normal, disk two was going smooth then started throwing error codes again. I have to abopt install, install disk one again, and then cancel the install. So the problem, it appears, is that I'm not being able to install the needed pieces. I downloaded my MDK ISO's from the mandrake website so I'm kind of perplexed as to where I need to go and get the proper files.

 

I am willing to deal with this the "long" way...at this point I just want it to work and I can download the missing programs later.

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My guess after this much trouble is that your download of cd 2 is bad. I would download it again from another ftp server than you downloaded it the first time and try 1 more time. The only way I know of to get all of the needed programs after install would install everything on those 3 cd's...probably not what you want.

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Not at all. We should have told you that early on. But it is in the README from NVIDIA in the Installation Section.

ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x...1.0-5336/README

KERNEL INTERFACES

 

The NVIDIA kernel module has a kernel interface layer which must be

compiled specifically for the configuration and version of the kernel

you are running.  NVIDIA distributes the source code to this kernel

interface layer, as well as a precompiled version for many of the kernels

distributed by some popular distributions.

 

When the installer is run, it will determine if it has a precompiled

kernel interface for the kernel you are running.  If it does not have

one, it will check if there is one on the NVIDIA ftp site (assuming you

have an internet connection), and download it.

 

If a precompiled kernel interface is found that matches your kernel,

then that will be linked[1] against the binary portion of the NVIDIA

kernel module.  The result of this operation will be a kernel module

appropriate for your kernel.

 

If no matching precompiled kernel interface is found, then the installer

will compile the kernel interface for you.  However, first it will

check that you have the correct kernel headers intalled on your system.

If the installer must compile the kernel interface, then you must install

the kernel-sources package for your kernel.

 

[1] NOTE: installation requires that you have a linker installed.

The linker, usually '/usr/bin/ld', is part of the binutils package;

please be sure you have this package installed prior to installing the

NVIDIA driver.

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