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.