Guest arothian Posted December 5, 2002 Report Share Posted December 5, 2002 OK, i have win2k on a 20 GIG hd and am going to install MDK 9.0 on a 2nd 4 GIG hard drive. It ID's the Hard Drive in the linux install, and i choose the packages i want to install. Then it says that its installing the packages which it does for about 1 min then it gives 3 beeps and the screen goes blank, install stops. Does this every time. Any ideas? THX Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuzzylizard Posted December 5, 2002 Report Share Posted December 5, 2002 First guess would be a corrupted CD. Did you download the ISOs from the web and did you do an md5sum to ensure they downloaded perfectly? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest arothian Posted December 5, 2002 Report Share Posted December 5, 2002 Yes, i did download them from the web. No, i did not run the msnsums. I couldn't find a windows copy. Got any sites to sugest for download of the iso's again and windows msnsums? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuzzylizard Posted December 5, 2002 Report Share Posted December 5, 2002 I don't really have any sites to suggest. Corrupted downloads are really just the luck of the draw and usually has nothing to do with the site you are downloading from. Also make sure that you download the md5sum txt file and place it in the same directory as the ISOs. For the md5sums, go here and download the md5sum.exe program http://downloads.activestate.com/contrib/m...dows/md5sum.exe Place it in the same directory as the ISOs and open up the command prompt, or DOS-prompt, navigate to the directory where the ISOs are and type in this command >md5sum.exe -c md5sums.90 or whatever the name of the file containing the md5sums is. This will produce a line in the command window telling whether each ISO failed or is OK. If all are OK, burn them to CD and install. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest arothian Posted December 6, 2002 Report Share Posted December 6, 2002 ok i downloaded the CD iso and the md5sum.exe so to test it, i type md5sum.exe -c <name of iso file> and it runs? or md5sum.exe -c MD5SUM.txt? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest arothian Posted December 6, 2002 Report Share Posted December 6, 2002 OK i figured md5 sum out and eliminated the CD problem. The problem still exists as stated originally. Tryed installing windows XP on the drive, and it failed. The HD is 5 years old so it could very well be done, unless anyone has a diffrent thought. If so let me know! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuzzylizard Posted December 6, 2002 Report Share Posted December 6, 2002 Nope, not really. If both OSs fail, then it is time to buy a new hard drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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