[wellylug] Installfest Disks

[Eugene Van Wyk]

Hi Colin

I've had some problems installing Mandrake.  Initially I told the distro
to upgrade Mandrake 8.  All went well up to the point where it had to
update the boot record, at which point it claimed that it could not do
that due to some error.  On rebooting I could still access my NT
platform, but only got kernel panic when trying to run Mandrake.  I
tried to reinstall using rescue option, and a few other options
available from the startup menu but the machine locked up with no screen
display for any option.

After nuking the whole partition from NT, I did a new install which
seemed to work fine.  Do you think this is a related problem to the
incorrect copies?  

Once I got the new install running, everything seemed to run smoothly.
I have not yet used the machine for any length of time, so I do not know
if any more problems are lurking.


By the way, I think the presentation and venue for the installfest was
great.  Pity I did not have the time to stay and enjoy.

Regards

Eugene van Wyk
Test Development Engineer
4RF Communications
26 Glover str
Ngaraunga
Wellington
New  Zealand


-----Original Message-----
From: Klenner, Colin [mailto:colin.klenner at eds.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, 7 May 2003 11:50 a.m.
To: wellylug at lists.naos.co.nz
Subject: [wellylug] Installfest Disks

Prior to and at the Installfest on Sunday I created copies of Mandrake,
Red
Hat, and Knoppix disks.

Unfortunately it appears my CD-writer did not correctly copy some disks
on
the day and my copy of Mandrake 9.1 disk 2 also had an error in it.
I have the Red Hat images and a clean CD with Knoppix, but could someone
please bring to the meeting next Monday a clean copy of Mandrake 9.1
disk 2.

If anyone that purchased CD's, that has not yet contacted me, finds
problems
with reading the CD's please contact me directly for replacements.

~~~
Colin Klenner
Replyto: colink at clear.net.nz

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