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Old 03-31-2003, 07:53 PM   #1
phirkel
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Unhappy Can't install Slack 9.0


Hey Folks.
I'm new to the world of Slackware, and I thought I would dive in with the latest version (9). I downloaded the ISO (verified it using md5hash) and burnt it. When I try to boot from it, everything goes fine, until it's time to mount the CD-ROM to run setup...
I type "mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdd /mnt" (hdd is my CD-ROM drive), and then I wait...
and wait...
and wait...
Finally it says something along the lines of "unable to mount because of wrong file system specified, bad superblock, or too many filesystems mounted". Then I run dmesg and I see it says something like " drive irq timeout error=0x58 { ..." and a bunch of things like "DriveSeek" or something.
I was wondering if anyone had any insight into what this problem could be...I was thinking it could be my crappy chipset (VIA KT400), as when I try to boot the same CD in a computer based on the nVidia nForce it works fine. My CD-ROM drive is a Creative 52x MX IDE drive and I am using the bare.i kernel to boot from the CD.
Any insights?
Thanks, Phil
 
Old 03-31-2003, 08:48 PM   #2
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If you can boot from the CD, and you get to a login prompt, there is no need to mount the cd. During the installation, setup will probe for the install CD.
Maybe I am misunderstanding your question?
 
Old 03-31-2003, 11:32 PM   #3
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Daone is right just make partitions and type setup
 
Old 04-01-2003, 02:49 AM   #4
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Don't use Partition Magic or other partition utility to partition u're hdd. Instead u should use the fdisk from win98 to make u're partition table. I'm sure the problem its here. Try to partition u're hdd from scratch with FDISK.
 
Old 04-01-2003, 08:31 AM   #5
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Quote:
Originally posted by DaOne
If you can boot from the CD, and you get to a login prompt, there is no need to mount the cd. During the installation, setup will probe for the install CD.
Maybe I am misunderstanding your question?
Yeah, sorry, I guess I wasn't that clear.
When I try to mount the CD myself, it doesn't work. And the installer hangs whenever I try to run it because of that problem (remember that Slack, and most installer CDs for that matter, boots from an initrd); it cannot mount the CD-ROM drive.

I partitioned the hard disk using fdisk that comes with Openwall (whatever version that is.)

I suspect the problem lies in the VIA KT400 Chipset (lousy budget chipsets!)
Thanks,
P.
 
  


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