Guest chancm Posted September 3, 2003 Report Share Posted September 3, 2003 When trying to install 9.2 RC1 to my Dell laptop, I came to this message: I can't access a Mandrake Linux Installation disc in your CDROM drive (TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-1902B). Retry? What can I do now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtweidmann Posted September 3, 2003 Report Share Posted September 3, 2003 When does the message appear and is the drive internal or external? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest chancm Posted September 4, 2003 Report Share Posted September 4, 2003 The problem happened at the beginning of installation. My laptop is Dell Laptitude LS with external cdrom and floppy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tiga Posted September 4, 2003 Report Share Posted September 4, 2003 Did you checked MD5SUM's of your CD's ? Checksum correct ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest njordan Posted September 4, 2003 Report Share Posted September 4, 2003 Was going to install SuSe 8.2 but now I will try to install Mandrake Linux 9.2 RC1 (because I hear Mandrake is better). I am new at this and have a dumb question to ask. I downloaded Mandrake 9.2 RC1 from http://www.linuxcompatible.org. Ok I poped CD1 into my CD-ROM and restarted the computer. My BIOS is set to install OS from CD-ROM. But when I restarted the computer the CD1 didn't begin to run to start the installation process. What am I doing wrong? Do i need to create a boot disk? How do I do this? Thanks in advance njordan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tiga Posted September 4, 2003 Report Share Posted September 4, 2003 Hmmm... First you should check the MD5SUM's of your iso-images then check if you burned your cd's Bootable At least you should check, if your bios is set to boot first from cd rom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest njordan Posted September 4, 2003 Report Share Posted September 4, 2003 Yes my BIOS is set to boot from the CD-ROM. How do I check the MD5SUM's of my iso-images? I think I burned the CDs bootable. This means finalize the session? Thanks Again for your help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tiga Posted September 4, 2003 Report Share Posted September 4, 2003 Go to your MDK FTP and klick on this 9.2rc1.md5sums.asc Link. Save the site as text document into the folder where your iso's are. Open a Console ... switch to the directory, where your iso's are in and type : md5sum -c 9.2rc1.md5sums.asc Your iso' s get checked then ... the output will show you if they're ok. If not ... Download again ... Which Burn-Program do you use ? You just have to select "Writing iso file" or something like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest chancm Posted September 5, 2003 Report Share Posted September 5, 2003 I've check the md5sum file. Its all correct. I've gotten no problem installing 9.0 and 9.1. Will that be the new version forget to support Dell Laptitude notebook? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted September 5, 2003 Report Share Posted September 5, 2003 Try installing with linux acpi=on ...just a thought. :wink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest chancm Posted September 5, 2003 Report Share Posted September 5, 2003 Just try linux acpi=on, problem still remain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pzatch Posted September 6, 2003 Report Share Posted September 6, 2003 Make sure you burned it as an 'image' and not as the ISO itself. Don't expand/extract the ISO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest chancm Posted September 6, 2003 Report Share Posted September 6, 2003 It's ain installation CD, not an image CD. I use the same download-burn-installation procedure ever since 8.0 and there's no installation problem occurred until I come with this 9.2 version. I also tried to install this RC1 version to my testing desktop machine. It can detect my CDROM. But more serious problem happened while installation. When came to the selection of packages to install, I can't proceed. No matter which packages I selected (from minimum packages to all packages selected manually), it still pop this message: <center> basesystem package not selected </center> It bother me very much as I've selected all the packages. What is the basesystem package. Should it not include in the package selection menu? I really feel disappointed. Maybe it time to consider a change to Redhat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris:b Posted September 6, 2003 Report Share Posted September 6, 2003 But more serious problem happened while installation. When came to the selection of packages to install, I can't proceed. No matter which packages I selected (from minimum packages to all packages selected manually), it still pop this message:<center> basesystem package not selected </center> It bother me very much as I've selected all the packages. What is the basesystem package. Should it not include in the package selection menu? I really feel disappointed. Maybe it time to consider a change to Redhat. You'll find on the cooker mailing list that this is possibly a bug in the RC1 release (still testing!): http://archives.mandrakelinux.com/cooker/2...03-09/thrd2.php bug 4495 and bug 5012 Before changing to RH I would wait and try the final 9.2. release. Sorry that I can't help you more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest chancm Posted September 10, 2003 Report Share Posted September 10, 2003 The same problem happened again in RC2. Tell me if Mandrake going to leave DELL unspported and I can make up my discision to shift to Redhat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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