help installing 10.0

mostwanted · 11-09-2004, 09:34 PM

I have downloaded the 10.0 official here at this site. I burned these files as images as suggested. Then I booted the machine off of disk 1. After starting up it serched for the files in the cdrom. I don't think that it found what it was looking fo because I got this message:

error in exec of stage2 :-(
trying to execute '/usr/bin/runinstall2'

from the installation volume
the following fatal
error occured
FATAL ERROR IN STAG1 :I/O error

I cannot recover from this
you may reboot your system

Did I get a bad burn??
I want to eventually purchase the 10.1, but for now, I want to expieriment with the downloaded copy.

opjose · 11-09-2004, 09:41 PM

Post your machine specs.

mostwanted · 11-09-2004, 09:44 PM

PII 300Mhz
64mb RAM
120 harddrive dual boot running:
win98se
red hat 7.1

opjose · 11-09-2004, 09:49 PM

As I suspected, heh...

There is a real rash of this today...

PII 300Mhz <--- oops...

Mandrake is compiled for the i586 as a minimum.

There is a seperate (older) download available for i386's that will probably work on your machine.

mostwanted · 11-09-2004, 10:00 PM

so 10.1 wont work either if I purchased it?

opjose · 11-09-2004, 10:07 PM

Correct.

equinox · 11-10-2004, 02:29 AM

Opjose u r wrong, a quote from mandrakelinux.com for compatible hardware:

Quote:

Supported hardware for Mandrakelinux

A complete list of supported hardware is available at http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/hardware.php3

Processor: an x586-class or above processor is required. This includes Intel Pentium I/II/III/IV/Celeron, AMD K6/II/III, AMD Duron, AMD Athlon/XP/MP. Hyper-Threading is supported. SMP multi-processor machines are supported. (*)

some things i suggest are to maybe try a text install or a definate would be to verify your md5 sums from the mandrake mirrors.

opjose · 11-10-2004, 02:36 AM

Yeah, excuse the brain fart re-specs.

However in most of these cases everyone is reporting the same problem...

Namely that they cannot even get to the point that the init processes are running.

And this consistently happens on older machines of P-II caliber and below.

Even the installer fails on these machines as indicated by this poster.

equinox · 11-10-2004, 02:46 AM

your attitude stinks. you think you are some kind of "unix god" or something. your sarcasm is especially low. a few people have made comments about you and i too noticed your attitude on a post of mine.

opjose · 11-10-2004, 03:07 AM

And your point?

I'm not here to pander to your perceptions.

When I'm sarcastic, I'm VERY overt, to the point that you would not be wondering about it.... as it's always merited by the user that brought it on.