Hey, everyone. My name is Christopher David Yudichak. I've been using Linux for a little while now. not long enough to know everything, but enough to use it rather well.

I've been experimenting with different distros and decided that I really like Mandrakelinux. So, I downloaded the ISOs (which, at the time, were Community). I burned them to discs and went to install. But, the installation froze when "Looking for available packages", a problem on which I saw a few previous posts. So, I tried everything mentioned in the posts, but still couldn't get it working. So I thought, just for fun, I'd try one of the other distros I had, but I couldn't get any of them to install for some reason. By now, I'm thinking that I must have some hardware trouble (even though I just recently had many other distros installed on this system) Anyway, I came back to the Internet and downloaded the Official ISOs, and everything seemed to be installing fine this time.

But, then, after choosing packages to install, I got a message:

"There was an error installing packages:
*name of package*

Go on anyway?"

So, I clicked "OK" just to get through it, but this message comes up for EVERY package.

Well, that's where I need some help. Anyone have any ideas what I can do about it? Or what is causing it? If you need more information about my setup and/or process, please let me know.

Thanks in advance.


Sincerely,
Christopher David YUDICHAK

It happened to me few times. Ones when one of my cd was scratched and second time when I burned iso file to cd with maximum speed. It gave me same error, so I did burn it again with slower speed and everything went OK.

Like he said...

Assume a bad disk, download, or write... then work from there.