On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 21:37:14 +0100
Andi Kleen
The 64->32bit upgrade probably has broken the installation severly. You can try to rescue something, but it might be a lot of work or not work.
I would boot from the rescue system if possible and then save your data that you still need on an different partition, then do a reinstall with a format of the old root partition.
Regarding why the DVD install did not work - that's very weird. What happens when you try to read the DVD e.g. from the rescue system. Can the DVD ROM read it properly then? The 9.2 DVD is double layer, maybe your DVD ROM doesn't like that.
My data isn't a problem I have it backed up. The DVD looks OK when mounted in 386 Ubuntu, which I have on a separate partition. The DVD boots OK and the installer starts to run. It activates the USB system and then hangs after "Searching for info file .... " which it presumably can't find. What is this info file? The installer obviously can't find it. - Richard