Guest billdozor Posted November 6, 2002 Report Share Posted November 6, 2002 hi all, i am trying to install mandrake 9.0 on an extra computer. my computers specs are amd duron 950mhz and 256 mb sdram. i am booting from cd (using an old hp cdwriter) and i get to the screen that says "loading program into memory" with the red bar...it gets to about 5-10% and then the screen goes black and displays this message: ---------------- error in exec of stage2:-( trying to execute 'usrbinruninstall2' from the installation volume, the following fatal error occured FATAL ERROR IN STAGE1: Not a directory I can't recover from this. You may reboot your system. ------------------- any ideas or help is appreciated:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BertoldK Posted November 11, 2002 Report Share Posted November 11, 2002 In case your CD is OK (if it is created from a download, you should check it with md5sum), I'd tend to blame your old CD writer. Could be the optical system is unclean, or the firmware is obsolete, or... Another reason could be faulty memory. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest billdozor Posted November 11, 2002 Report Share Posted November 11, 2002 i know that its not the cd, i got a copy from a friend of 9.0 and tried it. i also have a store bought copy of 8.1 that i know works. both got the same error message. thanks, i will try putting in a new cdrom drive. (i dont think its the memory, brand new, but ill try that too) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest billdozor Posted November 12, 2002 Report Share Posted November 12, 2002 woooo!! got it working! turns out it was the 'ol cd writer, just swapped it for a good dvd rom drive and its working great now. thanks for your input! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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