Guest smithashetty Posted January 14, 2005 Report Share Posted January 14, 2005 Hi, I am new to linux. I tried to install the mandrake v10.0 dvd iso but I ran into trouble. I got this error "Could not uncompress second stage ramdisk. This is probably an hardware error while reading the data. (this may be caused by a hardware failure or a linux kerna bug)" And when I checked the logs this is what I got: ...... ... found a Mandarake Linux CDROM, good news! Total memory: 256 Mbytes trying to load /tmp/image/Mandrake/base/mdkinst_stage2.bz2 as a ramdisk reading compressed ramdisk: IO_ERROR unsetting automatic Someone please help me cause I have been sitting with this for quite sometime. I did burn the dvd at a slower rate. Thank you in advance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest EliteNeophyte Posted January 15, 2005 Report Share Posted January 15, 2005 I'm having the same problem, mine with CD's. I'm guessing we're both doing the same thing wrong, so hopefully we can get this resolved soon. Good luck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted January 15, 2005 Report Share Posted January 15, 2005 Greets! Did you check the md5sum of the iso? Are you using good media? While it could be hardware, it is usually a record/poor download issue. If it is hardware, I would check out your RAM. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest EliteNeophyte Posted January 15, 2005 Report Share Posted January 15, 2005 <----newb: what's an md5sum? :( (in other words, no I didn't check it and that's probably where I went wrong) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted January 15, 2005 Report Share Posted January 15, 2005 :lol: OK, the md5sum is a seperate small file that is a numeric value which will match the downloaded file if the bits are correct. K3B will report the md5sum for comparison. There is a windows program that will also calculate it. If the numbers match, the download is good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest EliteNeophyte Posted January 15, 2005 Report Share Posted January 15, 2005 My only working box is currently running WinXP, where might I find the windows program to accomplish that task? And, thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkFoss Posted January 15, 2005 Report Share Posted January 15, 2005 I user this windows version myself to check the downloads and cd burns http://www.md5summer.org/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest EliteNeophyte Posted January 16, 2005 Report Share Posted January 16, 2005 (edited) That cleared up that problem. Thank you. Now, anybody know why I get "There was an error installing packages: ldconfig-2.3.3-21mdk.i586 Go on anyway?" and an endless stream of other such errors when I get to the 'Install System' stage? Edit: Note: now installing 10.1 since I had to redownload anyway to get the md5, the above error was generated by 10.1's disk 1 Edited January 16, 2005 by EliteNeophyte Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest nesotpi Posted January 16, 2005 Report Share Posted January 16, 2005 (edited) Easiest way out of the ISO problem 1. Download the ISO for DVD. 2. Instead of burning, mount it using DAEMON tools Edited January 16, 2005 by nesotpi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest EliteNeophyte Posted January 16, 2005 Report Share Posted January 16, 2005 (edited) "Instead of burning, mount it using DAEMON tools" While I'm not opposed to this concept, I have no idea how to go about something like this, even if I had a functional linux box. What I have is one dead box with an empty hard drive (the target of all of this toil) and the winxp box that I'm currently writing this with. Ideas? And, thank you to everyone who has helped with this so far. EDIT: No acpi and such worked ^_^ Thanks again everyone. Edited January 17, 2005 by EliteNeophyte Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest smithashetty Posted January 18, 2005 Report Share Posted January 18, 2005 Thank you everyone for replying. All your suggestions helped. My problem is solved. I had a corrupt download. Thank you once again!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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