Mandrake 8.2 install problems

[Maki]

Hi,

I just downloaded Mandrake 8.2 last night and have been having some issues trying to install it.

I had just installed RedHat 7.2 on that machine but decided I liked the configuration widgets of Mandrake better. I decided to format the root partition and mount my other two drives under /home (and /home/backups). Then I just wanted to load very simple server stuff. (Really, the only thing I truly care about having on that machine is samba and nfs.)

This is all well and good except the installation will lock up randomly. Everywhere from configuring the disk drives to copying data.

Is anyone else having issues like this? Is there some way to know what is the problem?

This is very frustrating.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Did the md5sums match up? Try text install.

 

[Maki]

If I knew what a md5sum was and/or how to verify it I could answer that. How do I check the md5sum?

Thanks for the help!

 

[n0cmonkey]

RTFM

 

[kudra]

MD 5 Summer generator/check

http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~floydian/md5/md5v11.exe

 

[NorthenLove]

As others have said RTFM, but to break it down md5sum allows you to check to see if the files you download are curropted or not. This is why they include the md5sum number along with the link to the ftp to download so you can check to see if your rather large 650 mb download did not get curopted somehow while you were downloading those ISO's. It helps to save blank cd's from being wasted and of course you will have to download it and install it for Windows but for Linux it's already there so no need to look for a Linux verison once you install Mandrake.

 

[Maki]

The question was more directed to how to check the thing under windows.

Thanks for the help. The contents of the discs were fine. The problem was that my ancient cd rom drive wouldn't read the particular type of cd-r I used. I used different disks with no issues.

And we won't go into the horrific things that EZ CD creator 4 does to an Xp system that just happen to make burning a CD a living hell. (One hint : regedit is required.)

The irritating part is that I very vaguely remember this NOW from when I installed some way old version of redhat way back when on that same machine. Time for the old 4x drive in that thing to go away.