Hi Im installing from a live cd .when it gets to 95% it stops. Its a full insstall no otther os.

I have had no problem with Mepis live CD other than partitioning. Make your partitions first, then reboot your computer before trying to install. Remember that the size will be much greater than the 700 megs of the CD - more like 3 GB! Make a swap and an ext2 partition.
You haven't given any details - try to be more specific so we can help you more.
That 95% means nothing - I have seen installs that go to 165% or complete at 80%!!! There is a long delay between installing the packages and the finalization stage. Are you waiting long enough? Use the "text mode" install rather than "graphical" - sorry, I can't remember if Mepis has this.
Don't give up cause it's a good distribution.

OK! I run the live cd go to install. I start installing formating goes good.then installs system files 1% 15% 34% and so on.Then 95% no more. Put it this way today ran the installation Went to do some work on my truck came back 4 hrs. later and never past 95% Hop thats better! Oh! CPU 2500+ 786mb ram 80g hd

OK. I have racked my brains for a few days, but nothing really clicked. It should work!
There are three things that come to mind as possible errors:-
1. You don't have enough swap - unlikely, but possible - even though you have a lot of RAM.
2. Your CDROM drive is overheating. I have had a couple that did this, but they normally resumed working after 20 minutes rest. Try to borrow someone else's CDROM drive for a short period.
3. Some Seagate 80 Gb hard disks did have a problem. They wouldn't work unless they were fully partitioned by Windows / DOS fdisk. Linux could be installed by using the Linux fdisk -t option to change the partition type. I never figured out why this happened, but it is a real problem. All 80 Gb needs to be partitioned AND formatted. No need to install Windows but a DOS system must be on C: (i.e. Command.com)

Hope this helps!

Try and burn the iso_image for the live cd again, maybe there is something wrong with your cd.

cheers

There is nothing wrong when the install seems stuck at 95 percent. Be patient it will continue and install successfully. I have seen that when I install Mepis. There is just a lot of configuring going on that you don't see. I agree that some small feedback should be working so the person installing Mepis won't think something is wrong. Try the install again using the same disk. I promise if you got to 95 percent you will get the full install. I installed beta 5 and this morning I installed rc1, both times staying at 95 percent. My cpu is an Athlon 2000+ which is not fast. the install took 13 minutes. If you have an older, slower cpu it could take a half hour or more. Be patient, my best advice.

edit- I didn't read about the fellow who waited four hours at 95 percent. I don't know what to say about that. My experience with many versions of Mepis is that it seem to hang but really is working in the background.

When I posted the other day about 95 percent being slow but working fine I see I was only half right. On Mepislovers forum someone discovered that it works OK *if* the install is made with the custom configuration of partitions. That is the way I do it all the time as I have other distros installed on my hard drive. I didn't even give that step a thought. So, those having trouble with the install hanging at 95 percent try again using the custom install partition option.

i'm running mepis on the same computer. it installs complete in about 15 minutes. i don't know what version that you are installing, but you can go to the mepis site & download the mepis 6 beta. the rc1 has trouble on a full install. other than that, it sounds like a bad cd burn to me.

On Mepislovers there is thread working about trouble installing version 6.0 rc1 when the users chooses Full Install. The work around is to use Custom Install. The bug will be taken care of in rc2 that will be ready in a day or two.

I use Custom Install all the time so I noticed no problems. Others who habitually use Custom Install said the same. Certainly other problems can cause problems in a specific install. But this is now a known problem. It will be the cause for most complaints about hanging at 95 percent too long. It should also be said that even with Custom Install, a good installation, 95 percent will hang for a few minutes. On my install it took about two minutes to get past 95 percent.

Like ArchAngel said, I strongly recommend two things:

1) Check the md5sum of the iso image file you downloaded.
2) Burn another CD of your iso image at a slower speed. Something like 10x or 12x.

If it doesn't work stil, then the problem is with your HDD.

-STYNGERSMASH-

I don't know if this applies, but I've had difficulty installing Mepis when trying to install from my primary. It wouldn't boot Live CD properly. When it finally boot, then my install would go poorly. I would then boot from my secondary cd-rw and the install would be better. Hope this applies and helps.

Also check if your download is the same size (I think the rc-1 is about 671megs) and md5sum. I had some problems with that as well(I don’t really know what that is all about, sometimes I get the right size and sometimes I get a (much) smaller iso). If the sizes are ok , then burn the image(if you open the cd to see what is on you should see a boot file and some other stuff. If you only see the iso_image then you copied) .
Try to burn it again, also try an earlier version(because of the install bug in rc-1), but try some other life distro`s as well like DSL or Vector. Then you can check if your method of burning is correct, if so, than it is probably do to hardware incapability.
I burn all my iso`s at 8x.

Hope it will work out for you.

(if somebody wants to correct or add something please do because I am not an expert)