Trying to install 10.0 on an older machine PII 333 with 128ram to run a simple webserver. Installing from disk 1 initiates a fatal error, and the same with disk two. Have installed 10.0 from the same disks on another machine with no problem. Is there anything saying that 10.0 is not compatible with older machines??? any help would be awesome

I'm running mdk 10 on these sorts of machines, although maybe it's some propriety system that gives trouble. I would think not tho. What brand of machine and is this mdk 10 comunity or official? And is the CDrom okay? What error do you get and when?

Its the community edition. The error occurs after the ramdisk to memory just after I hit install. I have tried low res install and text both come with this error


error in exec of stage2: -(
trying to execute '/usr/bin/runinstall2' from the
installation volume, the following fatal error occurred

FATAL ERROR IN STAGE :I/O ERROR

I can't recover from this

You may reboot your system

And thats it from there just a black screen. Any suggestions???

I bet that the CDROM image is not OK.

Since you have used the same disks on another machine I would fault the CD Rom first. Older CD Roms aren´t always able to read CD-R´s or CD-RW´s. If you still have access to the other machine or at least a newer machine, I´d suggest pulling the CD Rom from one of those and using them to install on the PII 133 box. I´ve done a similar install on a few machines where I would temporarily pull the IDE cable to a CD Rom laying on the top of the case that I had pulled from another machine. What is weird is that after I had Mandrake installed I was able to use the CD in the case to installl additional packages. If you still can´t use the CD after installing you could always try using another machine on the network as a remote source for the files by going into Software Management/Media Manager/Add a medium. You could point to an FTP or HTTP server on your LAN where you´ve copied the CD´s to. Or just add URPMI sources.

If you don´t have another CD Rom available, try another disk media. Sometimes older CD´s will like green media over blue, etc. If you do try other disks just burn disk 1 first to make sure the drive likes that type of disk.