[plug] frustrated.....plzz help !

[William Kenworthy]

Check the bios first, and make sure it has a sensible selection.

Also some motherboard chipsets will only work with an ide=nodma during
install, but are usually ok afterwards.  And check interrupts in the
bios that not too many are shared: been seeing some messages lately
about this on lists, but cant remember what MB.  Its rarely a bad drive
(unless old) mostly software, cable or jumpers.

BillK


On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 17:01, Russ Pitman wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 12:53:45PM +0600, asif wrote:
> > I got 'original' Redhat 8.0 CDs and tried to install it on my pretty old
> > machine (P-II 350, 64 RAM..). But after the 'Media Check' it always shows 'FAIL'.
> > Someone told me the problem is either with the CDs or my CD-ROM drive (Asus 50X). Then i went to my cousins house and checked on his PC with Asus 52X drive.
> > The media check showed success. I brought that NEW CD-drive along with me and tried again on my PC. guess what.....FAIL ! 
> > 
> > then i tried installing it anyway and blew up my partition as it stopped halfway
> > showing the following message.
> > 
> > ERROR
> > **********
> > The file /mnt/sysimage/var/tmp/glibc-common-2.2.93-5.i386.rpm cannot be opened. This is due to a missing file, a bad package, or bad media. Press <return> to try again.
> > *********************************************************************************************
> > 
> > Plz help me with this.
> > 
> > rgds. 
> If the cable is ok check that the jumper is _not_ set to cable select.
> 
> Otherwise I would try some different distro. RH8.0 drove me to switch to 
> mandrake.
-- 
William Kenworthy <billk at iinet.net.au>