king_scott_2 Posted December 12, 2004 Report Share Posted December 12, 2004 After a friend gave me the mandrake 10.1 community CD-ROMs I tried installing it. After selecting my CD-ROM drive I wish to use for the installation then inserting the CD1 I got an error message "Could not open compressed ramdisk file (/sysroot/tmp/image/install/stage2/mdkinst_stage2.bz2.) Any ideas on how to install it??? (I had mandrake 10.0 community installed fine) If all else fails, Is there a way I could install mandrake 10.1 from within mandrake 10.0????? Thanks for your time, Scott Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted December 12, 2004 Report Share Posted December 12, 2004 did the cd-roms work on his box? if not, check the md5 sum of the cds. they might be a bad burn. you can install/upgrade your 10.0 to 10.1 via web-access. but do this only if you have broadband. otherwise it will take years to complete the download. go to the "easyurpmi" site (→google) if you haven't done so already and set up your mirrors. when asked, which system you are using, do not select 10.0 but 10.1 official edition. follow the instructions. once your mirrors are ready, reboot your system into failsafe-mode or boot into a terminal. (in failsafe mode, type at the first prompt "init 3" and then log in as root). once you are logged in as root on the command-line or a terminal (do not run gnome, kde or whatsoever!), type "urpmi --auto --auto-select". urpmi should take care of everythign now. once urpmi has finished, type "lilo -v" and reboot. that should do the trick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
king_scott_2 Posted December 12, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 12, 2004 I am new at all this. What is easyurpmi? What are mirrors (other then the ones you look at) and no I don't have broadband Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted December 12, 2004 Report Share Posted December 12, 2004 take a look here: :) http://mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtopic=17480 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
king_scott_2 Posted December 12, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 12, 2004 Will this mean I have the latest version of Mandrake, not just the applications, I wanted the wireless support that mandrake 10.1 Had to offer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted December 12, 2004 Report Share Posted December 12, 2004 you can add EVERYTHING that ever got published/compiled for mandrake using easyurpmi. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted December 13, 2004 Report Share Posted December 13, 2004 well, not strictly true. you can't get commercial packages via easyurpmi and you can't get oddball stuff like the kde 3.3 packages that were thrown onto CD4 of the 10.1 download. aside from that, it's fairly close, yes. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
king_scott_2 Posted December 20, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 20, 2004 Just had a look at that easyurpmi site. I don't have broadband. Is there a way I can update to 10.1 community through 10.0 community. I wish to update to 10.1 community using my CD-ROMs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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