Having just received my 8.2 I was eager to start working. I decided to go for an upgrade and found out that there where difficulties reading the installed packages of my 8.1 install. It hung. Well, there is always a new install so I decided to go for that. But the new install (tried them all out) also hangs and well there where it starts giving the install possibilities. The sentence "Evaluation of packing selection" stays there forever. In the beginning there is hard disk activity and the cdrom spun but after several minutes every sign of activity is gone. I cannot imagine why there is hd activity at all. It is always such an occasion that it is advisable to check memory. I have 256 Mb and indeed at 209.3 Mb there is an error. Could it be the faulty memory? As I do not have the possibility to get new memory in the coming days and being eager to get the 8.2 running, is there a possibility to restrict the memory use during installation of 8.2 up to the size of 209Mb as I can do during normal use? -- " May fortune favor the foolish. - J. Kirk" NTReader v0.36w(P)/Beta (Registered) in conjunction with Net-Tamer.
Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
Having just received my 8.2 I was eager to start working. I decided to go for an upgrade and found out that there where difficulties reading the installed packages of my 8.1 install. It hung. Well, there is always a new install so I decided to go for that. But the new install (tried them all out) also hangs and well there where it starts giving the install possibilities.
Do a clean install. When the CD first boots up, there are 2 things you should do AT ONCE. First is hit the F2 key anc choose your inital resolution. Second, choose the install WITHOUT ACPI! That is, "ACPI off." All should be well from then on. Fred -- Fred A. Miller Systems Administrator Cornell Univ. Press Services fm@cupserv.org, www.cupserv.org
On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 15:01, Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote: <snip>
It is always such an occasion that it is advisable to check memory. I have 256 Mb and indeed at 209.3 Mb there is an error. Could it be the faulty memory?
DUH. Try removing one of the memory modules, if you have 2 installed until the installation is complete.
As I do not have the possibility to get new memory in the coming days and being eager to get the 8.2 running, is there a possibility to restrict the memory use during installation of 8.2 up to the size of 209Mb as I can do during normal use?
Hello I had exactly the same problem. I tried installing from scratch N times and N times it failed at the same place (Evaluating package selection...). I posted to the list to no avail. The last thing I tried was swapping out my CDROM drive from a 52X to something much slower. This solved the problem. I don't know why but that did it. The 52X drive had no problems with 8.1 installation however. Magic? Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
Having just received my 8.2 I was eager to start working. I decided to go for an upgrade and found out that there where difficulties reading the installed packages of my 8.1 install. It hung. Well, there is always a new install so I decided to go for that. But the new install (tried them all out) also hangs and well there where it starts giving the install possibilities.
The sentence "Evaluation of packing selection" stays there forever. In the beginning there is hard disk activity and the cdrom spun but after several minutes every sign of activity is gone. I cannot imagine why there is hd activity at all.
It is always such an occasion that it is advisable to check memory. I have 256 Mb and indeed at 209.3 Mb there is an error. Could it be the faulty memory? As I do not have the possibility to get new memory in the coming days and being eager to get the 8.2 running, is there a possibility to restrict the memory use during installation of 8.2 up to the size of 209Mb as I can do during normal use?
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" May fortune favor the foolish. - J. Kirk"
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