I've been trying to install Slackware 11.0 on a Toshiba Satellite Pro 440CDX, but there seems to be a glitch in the installation. After selecting the packages to install it seems that all the packages gets installed, then I get back to the menu to select which package to install. One time I reselected the packages to install and another time I selected cancel, but each time the installation routine starts again. The difference is that the second time I get a fatal error.

installpkg error #2
There was a fatal error attempting to install /var/log/mount/slackware/l/*.tgz. The package my be corrupt, the installation media may be bad, or something else has caused the package to unable to be read without error. You may hit inter to continue if you wish, but if this is an important required package then you installation may no work as-is.

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I'd like to know why the installation has to repeat itself in the first place. If there was an error wouldn't of it been caught during the first install?

Henry

Did you check to see if your disk is not corrupt ?

Hi,

Which installation method do you choose from the menu of setup?

I am also having this problem. I've tried downloading the ISO's from 3 separate mirrors from the Slackware website, and the torrent. I've been able to download and burn Debian and Fedora among other distributions so I don't think it's a hardware problem with the burner.

Did you try burning at a slower speed? Sometimes data can be written incorrectly if written too fast on some burners (personal experience!)

Check the md5sums of the isos and disks.

Make sure you have overburn enabled, and burn slowly. The first Slackware 11.0 disc is very close to the maximum size for a bootable CD image, and some writers _still_ have problems burning ISO images that large.