[ale] Install Issues with my inspiron 8500

[Jim Philips]

On Monday 06 September 2004 05:37 pm, Jeb Barger wrote:
> Downloaded it again (oc48 connections rock), md5 hash matches.  No Joy.
> Same Problem.
>
> Jonathan Rickman wrote:
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On
> >>Behalf Of Jeb Barger
> >>Sent: Monday, September 06, 2004 2:24 PM
> >>To: ale at ale.org
> >>Subject: [ale] Install Issues with my inspiron 8500
> >>
> >>I have been trying to installing MDK10 on my inspiron 8500.
> >>Things go fine except when it asks for the second cd.  It
> >>will tell me that it is not found, once I put it in of
> >>course.  I thought it was just a bad cd, so I burnt another
> >>one same problem.  I have also tried different distro's they
> >>all have problems when I asked to switch cd's.  I have also
> >>tried burning the cd's using a different burner.  Any ideas?
> >>
> >>The only distro I have had luck with was a Fedora boot DVD
> >>(didn't need to switch disks and it worked).
> >
> > Check the MD5 sum on the ISO you downloaded and make sure the download
> > was complete. I downloaded FC2 disk 2 the other day, successfully I
> > thought, and burned the CD only to find missing packages. The packages
> > were there, but reported as 0 bytes in size. Downloaded via http with
> > Firefox 0.8 on WinXP and burned with Roxio on same. I'd seen this happen
> > before with Bittorrent downloads, so I picked up on it pretty quick. MD5
> > sum failed verification, so I extracted the ISO to a folder with WinRAR
> > and discovered that a number of packages were 0 bytes in size. A fresh
> > download took care of things. Never seen any quirky drive problems on the
> > 8500, and I have loaded RH9 and Slackware on quite a few of them. If it
> > is a problem with the drive, then as you said, the DVD is the way to go
> > unless you feel like performing a network install.

Some people report problems installing because of supermount. Mandrake seems 
to be the only distro that uses it. I googled for a minute and saw a number 
of reports on this. The solution--for some people--is to simply disable 
supermount in the Mandrake Control Center and continue the install using 
traditional mount commands in a terminal. Try a Google on "mandrake 
supermount install" to see others' misery and check out:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/supermount-ng