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

[asif]

Thank you for your advice Russ.
:-)

Wishes
Asif


----- Original Message -----
From: "Russ Pitman" <rjp at belle.apana.org.au>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2003 3:01 PM
Subject: Re: [plug] frustrated.....plzz help !


> 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.
> >
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> >
> > 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.
> --
> Cheers
> Russ.
>
>