Guest jobanx Posted September 18, 2005 Report Share Posted September 18, 2005 Hi I am facing the following problem when installing Mandrake 10.1: After customizing the installation packages and installation starts I start getting messages about errors in certain files with a question on whether to proceed nevertheless or not. The number of files for which the errors are reported is great, here are the first three: idconfig-2.3.3-21mdk.i586 libreadline4-4.3-7mdk.i586 bash-2.05b-22mdk.i586 but the list goes on an on.. The messages ask if installation should ignore the missing files and move on. I pressed OK on all of them, and after all messages end, they loop back and I'm back with the first message about idconfig and so on. I thought the problem was with the CD image, so I made sure the md5 checksum was correct and made a fresh CD. But I got the same situation! I tend to think the problem has to do with my computer running a customized HP Windows installation (I intend to dual boot the Windows XP that came with the PC with Mandrake). My machine's specs (HP Pavilion a1110n): P4 Celeron, 512Mb, Single HDD 160 Thank you for helping a newbie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richfly Posted September 18, 2005 Report Share Posted September 18, 2005 Another guess - but it may be due to the customisation...? Have you tried just going with the default install? (I wouldn't have thought the customised WinXP installation would get in the way, as it's a separate partition. Mind you, if you didn't defrag it before you started, you may lose bits of it when Mandriva partitions the free space!). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jobanx Posted September 18, 2005 Report Share Posted September 18, 2005 Yes I did try the default installation, and got the same thing. Before I started with the Linux installation, I prepared the required partitions under Windows using PartitionMagic, so I don't suppose I should be worried about problems in this regard... I guess :unsure: I used the distribution from: http://www.linuxiso.org/distro.php?distro=29 could it be that this distribution is somehow damaged? In any case, I did check the md5 sum before I burned the ISOs and they checked out fine. I read in another place that there could be some problem with an option in the bios called ACPI (I have no idea what ACPI is!): http://www.linuxcompatible.org/thread28356-1.html I looked in my BIOS for ACPI but didn't find it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazyspongebob Posted September 20, 2005 Report Share Posted September 20, 2005 Hi jobanx, I wonder if you can lower the speed of burning those CD images. I don't know why Mandriva does not include CD integrity checking during the installation process like Fedora or Ubuntu so that you know if your burned CDs are good or not. Reburn those CD images. J.T. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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