bsyuni Posted June 2, 2004 Report Share Posted June 2, 2004 (edited) Hello. I have installed Mandrakelinux 9.0, 9.1, 9.2 at my thinkpad 560 that is one of the old IBM laptop. It have a CD-ROM as an external device. It uses PCMCIA slot. Mandrake linux is the only one that can support the CD-ROM. I have a problem for installing mandrake 10.0 OE. I downloaded three iso files and burn them. The CMOS dose not provide a CD-ROM booting. I made a booting floppy. It made me install all previous Mandrake 9.X. But this time I am not lucky enough. Because it dose not provide only text mode installation and after "Checking available packages..." message then the CD-ROM just spinning all the time. I just try it several times but I can not make it. I think I still have two choices. Network installation and installation form local hard disk. 1. Network installation I have an Ethernet card for PCMCIA type. It dose not work before small modification. I just added card "D-link DFE-670TDX Ethernet" manfid 0x0149, 0x4530 bind "tulip_cb" to my /etc/pcmcia/config How can I do that when I do installation? 2. Installation form local hard disk I have a FAT partition in my local hard disk. If I copy all files under PRM directory in the first CD. Is it possible to install? Because I do not have enough disk space to copy all files in the there CDs. Which one is better solution or none of the above? Any recommendation or how-to will be help. :lol: Edited June 2, 2004 by bsyuni Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pzatch Posted June 2, 2004 Report Share Posted June 2, 2004 Did you verify the downloads? Burn the disks at the slowest speed possible. Since it gets to the Finding packages part it must be a problem reading the disk at that point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bsyuni Posted June 3, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 3, 2004 Thanks for the tip. :lol: May I ask you one more? How can I verify my downloaded iso files? Is it fine when I open the CD and can see the files? Now I am downloading again from different ftp sever. After that I will follow your recommendation for the slowest burning. Still I am not sure how I am possibly check the CD is fine for not. Please . Thanks again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pzatch Posted June 3, 2004 Report Share Posted June 3, 2004 Before burning the ISO run a md5sum on the file to see if you got it correctly and completely error free. http://www.irnis.net/gloss/md5sum.shtml This site might help with that. This will only verify the download and not the burn. The burn could still be bad because of bad media faulty cd drive or burner. But it will eliminate at least one possibility. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bsyuni Posted June 3, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 3, 2004 Thanks a lot. :D It works. I can see that "installing packages.." message on the LCD. The problem was occurred during the burning. It was 12X speed and now it is 4X speed that is the lowest speed in my PC. Thank you for the tip of checksum. Whenever I saw the file for checksum I just have some curiosity. It works and it is a big help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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