Hi gang, I'm trying to install 9.3 on my girlfriend's system but having some troubles. All the hardware seems to be picked up fine, and everything works great up until it's time to install all the software I picked. It starts to install, but at random intervals and (I guess) random packages, it pops up windows saying such-and-such rpm cannot be installed (something about bad checksum). We tried this 6 times (a LOT of time went by doing this). I later thought 'maybe it's the RAM'. I wrote her an e-mail telling her to do the memtest86 thing, but she says it opens a console and wants a root login name and root password. Since we haven't been able to install anything there is no root anything. How do I get the thing to do the memtest if there's no root name or password? I really want her to try Linux and she's wanting to also, even her daughter is pretty enthusiastic about trying it out. Thanks, John -- Ragheads and illegal aliens...the world's cockroaches.
JB wrote:
How do I get the thing to do the memtest if there's no root name or
Use the UltimatebootCD and run memtest from there. I think it's in the default download. http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ /Per Jessen, Zürich
On Tuesday 29 November 2005 11:02 am, JB wrote:
Hi gang,
I'm trying to install 9.3 on my girlfriend's system but having some troubles.
All the hardware seems to be picked up fine, and everything works great up until it's time to install all the software I picked. It starts to install, but at random intervals and (I guess) random packages, it pops up windows saying such-and-such rpm cannot be installed (something about bad checksum). We tried this 6 times (a LOT of time went by doing this).
I later thought 'maybe it's the RAM'. I wrote her an e-mail telling her to do the memtest86 thing, but she says it opens a console and wants a root login name and root password. Since we haven't been able to install anything there is no root anything.
How do I get the thing to do the memtest if there's no root name or password? I really want her to try Linux and she's wanting to also, even her daughter is pretty enthusiastic about trying it out.
memtest used to be (and probably still is) executable from a boot of the Install DVD. You should be able to boot it and select memtest instead of 'Installation'. As for your rpm problems, I would suspect a problem with the DVD or the reader. When I got 10.0 I made up some DVD's for myself which included only the 32bit stuff. One of them had the same kind of errors and it turned out the blank I used was pretty scratched out of the box. The error messages weren't coherent enough to tell that it was really a read error on the DVD.
On Tuesday 29 November 2005 10:14, Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Tuesday 29 November 2005 11:02 am, JB wrote:
Hi gang,
I'm trying to install 9.3 on my girlfriend's system but having some troubles.
All the hardware seems to be picked up fine, and everything works great up until it's time to install all the software I picked. It starts to install, but at random intervals and (I guess) random packages, it pops up windows saying such-and-such rpm cannot be installed (something about bad checksum). We tried this 6 times (a LOT of time went by doing this).
I later thought 'maybe it's the RAM'. I wrote her an e-mail telling her to do the memtest86 thing, but she says it opens a console and wants a root login name and root password. Since we haven't been able to install anything there is no root anything.
How do I get the thing to do the memtest if there's no root name or password? I really want her to try Linux and she's wanting to also, even her daughter is pretty enthusiastic about trying it out.
memtest used to be (and probably still is) executable from a boot of the Install DVD. You should be able to boot it and select memtest instead of 'Installation'.
For some reason it isxn't in the list. I remember it being there for 7.3 and 8.2, maybe even 9.2, but can't see it on thed 9.3 choice list. Got it running though and so far no bad RAM <sigh>
As for your rpm problems, I would suspect a problem with the DVD or the reader. When I got 10.0 I made up some DVD's for myself which included only the 32bit stuff. One of them had the same kind of errors and it turned out the blank I used was pretty scratched out of the box. The error messages weren't coherent enough to tell that it was really a read error on the DVD.
Yep, we made a copy of my DVD (though it's clean as a whistle, no scratches whatsoever) and tried two different DVD readers...still giving the same problem, one of the readers is brand spankin' new, we went to the store and got it that evening , heh. Oh well. I'm gonna yank my old DVD-ROM out and take it over there and see if that helps any. It'd be a shame if the DVD readers she has are so crappy they can't read a good dual-layer DVD when my 7 year old DVD-ROM (from a Compaq even!) works just fine. Thanks for the suggestions though guys! -- Ragheads and illegal aliens...the world's cockroaches.
JB wrote:
Yep, we made a copy of my DVD (though it's clean as a whistle, no scratches whatsoever) and tried two different DVD readers...still giving the same problem, one of the readers is brand spankin' new, we went to the store and got it that evening , heh. Did the copy pass the Media Check program in Yast? Oh well. I'm gonna yank my old DVD-ROM out and take it over there and see if that helps any. It'd be a shame if the DVD readers she has are so crappy they can't read a good dual-layer DVD when my 7 year old DVD-ROM (from a Compaq even!) works just fine.
With the copy or the original DVD? I bought a NEC DL writer and my first 2 attempts to copy the DL DVD failed the Media Check and were expensive coasters. I learned though and my next 3 (copies for my kid's machines) were OK. -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Registered Linux user 231871
On Tuesday 29 November 2005 17:43, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
JB wrote:
Yep, we made a copy of my DVD (though it's clean as a whistle, no scratches whatsoever) and tried two different DVD readers...still giving the same problem, one of the readers is brand spankin' new, we went to the store and got it that evening , heh.
Did the copy pass the Media Check program in Yast?
Yessir, passed just fine, which really blew my mind, 'cause it just doesn't make sense that it couldn't be read correctly if it's good.
Oh well. I'm gonna yank my old DVD-ROM out and take it over there and see if that helps any. It'd be a shame if the DVD readers she has are so crappy they can't read a good dual-layer DVD when my 7 year old DVD-ROM (from a Compaq even!) works just fine.
With the copy or the original DVD?
With both. The new DVD-RW she got that night is a Sony. It does it all, even dual-layer (recording), but not RAM (I think that's what it's called). It looked like a pretty decent reader for $80. -- Ragheads and illegal aliens...the world's cockroaches.
On Tuesday 29 November 2005 7:01 pm, JB wrote:
With both. The new DVD-RW she got that night is a Sony. It does it all, even dual-layer (recording), but not RAM (I think that's what it's called). It looked like a pretty decent reader for $80.
Check out www.CDFreaks.com for firmware updates for CD/DVD drives. Even brand-new drives ship with outdated or down-revved firmwares. Plenty of manufacturer's own firmwares are listed. Some drives also have third party firmwares that increase speeds, allow reading/writing newer formats, etc. Most of those third-party firmwares are first tested on the firmware writer's own drive so you know it has to be reasonably good. Stan
On Wednesday 30 November 2005 13:36, Stan Glasoe wrote:
On Tuesday 29 November 2005 7:01 pm, JB wrote:
With both. The new DVD-RW she got that night is a Sony. It does it all, even dual-layer (recording), but not RAM (I think that's what it's called). It looked like a pretty decent reader for $80.
Check out www.CDFreaks.com for firmware updates for CD/DVD drives. Even brand-new drives ship with outdated or down-revved firmwares. Plenty of manufacturer's own firmwares are listed.
Some drives also have third party firmwares that increase speeds, allow reading/writing newer formats, etc. Most of those third-party firmwares are first tested on the firmware writer's own drive so you know it has to be reasonably good.
Stan
Thanks Stan, I'll look into that. As for the problem, it seems to have been a chip(?) on the RAM that was incompatible (with what, I'm not sure - it was something the website for memtest mentioned that she had read), whatever it was it kept 9.3 from installing correctly, so I got another 512MB stick and the install went just fine. I told her not to use the other (bad) stick, because it might cause other problems in other ways once the installation was done and the system was up and running.
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