[ltp] T22/DVD Mandrake Won't install

[SOTL]

On Wednesday 22 December 2004 08:46 am, Dave wrote:
> Ya I don't have a floppy drive for this thing. I'll have a look at the
> archive and see if I can find it.
My reference to the archives will not help as a floppy drive is monitory.

> I'll assume this is only a 10.1 issue? Never had a problem with the other
> versions on my 770.
Mandrake 10.0 and 10.1 issue 9.0, .1, .2, .3 work fine.

> I think I might know what else is the problem. I think this DVD/CD drive is
> crapped out. 

If so that is another issue. Mandrake 10.x still will not install without 
floppie in most Thinkpads. There could be some that it does install in but I 
personally am not aware of any which doesn't mean much as I am not a Thinkpad 
expert. 


Trying a few CDs/DVDs
> and they all seemed to have problems reading the disks. I download the
> first CD for 10.1 and tried to boot that,
> the first CD I created wouldn't boot, the second one, it would, but as it
> was loading up the kernel is came back
> with a error that it couldn't read the disk. 

I also have that issue with Mandrake and my Thinkpad. CDs will not install and 
if they do install they do not install without generating errors which appear 
and cause system crashes. Spent 2 years curshing 9.2 because of that very 
issue while 9.1 which I have on DVD installs perfectly. Just could not grasp 
the fact that when 9.2 did install if was installing with system errors as 
system appeared to run fine but in reality did not.

> So first I have to see what I can do about this drive.
It is not you drive that is the problem; it is the CDs.

You may be better switching to SuSE. I had SuSE installed in this box but 
since I do have WiFi and DO NOT have DSL it did not configure networking 
correctly.

That is another issue. Both SuSE and Mandrake set up best if you have DSL 
connected to the system while installing. For Mandrake one can use either / 
or both WiFi and DSL for SuSE if one has both capabilities then one MUST have  
DSL connected to correctly configure WiFi correctly.

Frank

>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-thinkpad-admin@linux-thinkpad.org
> [mailto:linux-thinkpad-admin@linux-thinkpad.org] On Behalf Of SOTL
> Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 8:08 AM
> To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
> Subject: Re: [ltp] T22/DVD Mandrake Won't install
>
> On Wednesday 22 December 2004 04:54 am, Winsley von Spee wrote:
> > Am Dienstag, den 21.12.2004, 23:09 -0500 schrieb Dave:
> > > I just got a new(well new for me) T22, just downloaded and burnt
> > > Mandrake 10.1 DVD. I'm trying to install it on the T22, but After
> > > the first boot screen from MDK, you can hit F1 or ENTER for Install.
> > > I hit enter, and at about half way on the progress bar it stops. I
> > > quickly tried a CD version of MDK 10.0 I had and that seems to work
> > > goes into the install.
> > >
> > > Anyone have a idea as to what could be the problem? Oh and the MD5
> > > is right, I made sure of that before I went ahead and burnt the DVD
> > >
> > > Thanks
> >
> > Perhaps a problem with pcmcia or similar. Play with the bootoptions to
> > find the problem.
> >
> >
> > Greetz
>
> To install Mandrake 10.1 from DVD or CD you MUST have coppied the
> additional
>
> device drivers to a floppy and have that floppy in the floppy drive.
> If you do not have a floppy drive then it probably would be best to choose
> some other method of installation.
> If you downloaded Mandrake 10.1 I have no idea where you get the auxiliary
> device drivers off the CD or DVD.
> There was considerable discussion on this on this BB archives approximately
> 1
> or 2 months back with the final posting being mine describing in detail how
> I
> accomplished this. I would repost except I might miss a few details not
> having my notes with me.
>
> Frank
>
> PS: SuSE 9.2 installation is much easer than Mandrake 10.1.
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