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Re: Mandrake 8.1 Installation



> When trying to install Mandrake 8.1, the installer got stuck at the step
> at which it displays the "Trying to access a CDROM disc" message.
> The strange thing is that the installer was successfully booted from the
> CDROM.
> 


A bad CD? Are you able to read the relevant files (which ones?) from 
one of the working Linux distros?
Where exactly in the installation process are you encounter this 
problem (immediately after boot, when trying to actually install the 
selected packages etc)?


> Any hints where to look for the problem?  How to work around it?
> 
> System configuration (let me know if more information is needed):
> Pentium II 300MHz, 384MB memory
> /dev/hda - none
> /dev/hdb - Yamaha CRW2200 CD/RW
> /dev/hdc - a 40GB hard disk (only the first 33GB are recognized due to a
>            BIOS limitation)
> /dev/hdd - none
> 
> Mandrake Linux 8.1 - from the CD-ROM set sold during the Linux Day at
> Bar-Ilan U.
> 
> The hard disk already has RedHat 7.2 and OpenBSD 2.9 installed in it, and
> it multi-boots using lilo.  When formatting the disk, I reserved few
> partitions for the planned Mandrake installation.
>                                              --- Omer
> There is no IGLU Cabal.  There are no integral SCSI cables either (only
> differential ones).
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