[plug] MDK 10 on HP NX9010

Kai vk6ksj at westnet.com.au
Fri Jul 9 00:33:29 WST 2004


James Budworth wrote:

> On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Kai wrote:
> 
>>Hi guys and girls,
>>
>>I bought an HP Compaq NX9010
>>(http://www.ht.com.au/Scripts/xworks.exe?PART:M1158#Tof) a few weeks ago
>>and I dropped into Linux IT and bought Mdk 10 Official.
>>
>>Tried installing Mdk 10 Official but the installer hangs just after the
>>initialisation screen, I've heard there might be a glitch with the first
>>install CD so I tried CD 2 and after a bit of waiting and some expected
>>noise from CD/DVD I get the message "I can't access a Mandrake Linux
>>Installation Disk in your CDROM Drive (_NEC DVD+RW _ND-5100). Retry ?"
>>
>>I google'd a bit and found a page on someone who tried installing Red
>>Hat 9 and who had problems with it, one of their many suggestions is to
>>use "linux nousb nopcmcia noprobe nofirewire" at the boot:- prompt, but
>>that didn't do any good.
>>
>>If anyone has any suggestions or pages they recommend I read about the
>>problem, please let me know
>>
>>Thanks
>>Kai
> 
> 
> I ran into a similar problem myself, before the GUI installer was loaded.
> 
> It turns out that there is a problem when you burn the disk, and that one 
> solution I have heard is to burn it at the lowest speed you can.
> 
> This fixed the problem I had.
> 
> The problem I had is discussed here.
> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=191208

OK, thanks, when I get a hold of a burnable CD I'll burn it at like 4x 
or something and see if that works.

While I'm at it, get this:
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/07/07/1089000215444.html

"bring computer skills to millions of poorer people" <-- yeah right, no 
need to bring Windows into the equation, they can already do that with 
Linux !



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