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i am unable to install mandriva 2006 at all due to not having a -required- package
it keeps asking me for idconfig on my third cd, and no matter what i do, it would not install. even went into my windows boot to see if it was even on the cd
and it was not!!
how is anyone going to install mandriva if they dont include required files
You might have had a corrupt download, or when you burnt the disk it didn't write properly, so I'd check the md5sums of the disks and try burning it at a slower speed.
sorry im completly new to linux, this is my first install, whats the md5sums?
i was burning it at 8x, and my burner can go up to 12x (ya its pretty old hehe)
it was the only package that i had issues with as far as i could tell, im downloading the third iso as im typing and gunna reburn it
You would compare the weird string of characters to the other weird string of characters you get from running the md5sum like in the link and if they're the same, you have a complete file, if they're different, you didn't get the right file.
Last edited by purelithium; 11-17-2005 at 05:52 PM.
i havent re-burnt it yet
if there the same, then it would be waste of cd-r to do it again
i looked at the new iso file, and the package is still not inside
could i use cd-rws? cus thats all i ahev now
i dont think its a burning issue, since the md5sum were the same between the burnt and iso, and sicne the package was still not in the iso
I checked both on the Powerpack DVD I downloaded with my club membership and on a main repo mirror listed at easyurpmi and there is no such package as idconfig so there's something funny going on here. Where and when did you download those CDs from? At what stage of the install does it ask for 'idconfig'? What is the exact error message it comes up with?
i downloaded the free cd isos, when it is installing packages it was asking me more my 3rd cd which is supposed to have ldconfig-2.3.5-5mdk.i586.rpm on it
well it kept failing sayign that this idconfig package couldnt be found
it seems that if i download this package seperately and add it to the iso image. it works!!!
so it looks like mandriva screwed up big time and all isos on every mirror are missing this file
idconfig or ldconfig? ldconfig definately exists - its a very important package - and its on both the DVD I have and the main mirrors. Can't speak for the 3CD download set though since I don't have it. Anyone else had this problem with the free download 3CD set?
Originally posted by Xtife sorry im completly new to linux, this is my first install, whats the md5sums?
i was burning it at 8x, and my burner can go up to 12x (ya its pretty old hehe)
it was the only package that i had issues with as far as i could tell, im downloading the third iso as im typing and gunna reburn it
md5sums has nothing to do with Linux, it's a method used for verification of transmitted data.
It's something any computer user who downloads software fro mthe internet should know.
There are plenty of windows programs to perform this task.
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