[ltp] Mandriva LE 2005 failed install on TP A21P

[Stefan Kreisberg]

I've installed Mandriva LE 2005 on R32 and X30 works flawless (haven't tested 
acpi/sleep)

Mandag den 16. maj 2005 04:13 skrev Bernard Tremblay:
> Hi,
>
> I have been unable to install Mandriva LE 2005 on my thinkpad A21P. The
> cdrom become unavailable during the install and lots of errors messages
> can be seen about /dev/hdc in the LOG console (/dev/hdc media errors).
> I had a Mandrake 10.0 and I am doing a completely new install. I saved
> my
> home folder on a backup folder and reformated the /partition. When I
> come
> to choose the packages they are not accessible from the CDROM and it
> says my
> selection is missing the base packages...  I tried the standard install,
> the text install, to copy the CDROMs to the hard disk before is not
> working either.
> I could not intall Mandrake 10.1 (same problem), I could not install
> knoppix 3.8
>
> : same problem...  But I finally installed from a base DEBIAN sarge
>
> install  on CDROM with an FTP access for the rest of the packages. I
> have a kernel 2.6.8.11, KDE 3.3 and the CDROM is working perfectly now
>  ...
>
> I'm still very unhappy to have downloaded Mandriva LE2005 6 CD wich is a
> fairly big download ... It did install quite well on my other home
> machine without any major problem. I know the media I'm using is not
> corrupted and the thinkpad CDROM and hard disk are OK too.
>
> So WHAT'S WRONG WITH MANDRIVA LE 2005 OR THE KERNEL THAT TRANSFORM THE
> THINKPAD INTO A NICE DEBIAN MACHINE ???
>
> Regards,
> BT
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>   Bernard Tremblay
>   public@imaginasys.fastmail.fm
> --
>   Bernard Tremblay
>   public@imaginasys.fastmail.fm