[Discuss] installpkg error #2

[Peter Pitsakis]

Tim,  I also had a similarly equiped machine with the same problem
whenever I let the burning software choose
the highest possible burning speed to create the CD image, the booting
of that CD almost always failed
with similar error messages. I solved the problem by reducing the speed
of the burning process to 16x and
even sometimes down to 8x (that's assuming your download image is not
corrupted).
If you do an integrity check on the CD you'll find out these files are
corrupted.



P.S.  There are half a dozen Slax Live CDs that are based on Slackware
Linux and 
available in sizes ranging from 50 megs for console based Linux to 200
megs with
Xwindows and XFce or KDE. You shouldn't have any problem running these
on your computer.

If you're interested check out this site:

http://www.slax.org/download.php

Peter P.

 On Thu, 2006-07-12 at 08:20 -0800, Kari Kostamo wrote:

> You can try one of the live CDs.  If the system boots and runs from a live
> CD your drive is most likely OK.
> 
> Kari 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: discuss-bounces at nanlug.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at nanlug.org] On
> Behalf Of Tim Holloway
> Sent: December 7, 2006 1:06 AM
> To: Nanaimo Linux User Group discussion list
> Subject: Re: [Discuss] installpkg error #2
> 
> um, i don't suppose anyone knows of a cd-rom diagnostic out there i can use.
> i just want to see if my 40X is a wee bit hoop'ed. if that's the problem,
> i'll have to splurge a wee bit and get myself something that works.
> 
> my initial search via google yielded nothing.
> 
> tim
> 
> 
> 
> On 12/6/06, Tim Holloway <timothyjholloway at gmail.com> wrote:
> > alright guys. thanks for the input. i'll try a different mirror site 
> > and i'll see if i can find a diagnostic for my cd player. it's an acer 
> > 40X, but that probably doesn't help you much.
> >
> > thanks again. i'll get back to you.
> >
> > tim
> >
> > On 12/6/06, Bill Leuze <billeuze at shaw.ca> wrote:
> > > doesn't look good
> > >
> > > if you are getting that many errors then you need to get a setup where
> you are not getting those errors. Can you check your install CD, maybe you
> need to get a clean copy, or maybe your CD drive is giving you errors.
> > >
> > > Bill
> > >
> > > At 11:51 AM 2006-12-06, you wrote:
> > > >hey everyone.
> > > >
> > > >i started installing slackware late last night, but got a bunch of 
> > > >fatal error messages.
> > > >
> > > >they said the following:
> > > >
> > > >installpkg error #2
> > > >There was a fatal error attempting to install 
> > > >/var/log/mount/slackware/a/aaa_base-11.0.0-noarch-2.tgz. The 
> > > >package may be corrupt, the installation media may be bad, or 
> > > >something else has caused the package to be unable to read without 
> > > >error. You may hit enter to continue if you wish, but if this is an 
> > > >important required package then your installation may not work 
> > > >as-is.
> > > >
> > > >i got the same error with the following files before i gave up:
> > > >
> > > >aaa_elflibs-11.0.0-i486-9.tgz
> > > >acl-2.2.39_1-i486-1.tgz
> > > >acpd-1.0.4-i486-2.tgz
> > > >attr-2.4.32_1-i486-1.tgz
> > > >
> > > >but i read a couple of forum entries and linked to linux.org about 
> > > >tarballs and it sounds like i might be able to go on faith and see 
> > > >if the installation works by the end. it's just that last night 
> > > >when i tried, there were a lot of files named this way. the little 
> > > >list here is just what i discovered when i tried again this morning.
> > > >
> > > >help me?
> > > >
> > > >i hope this is what the listserv is for. i appreciate your help.
> > > >
> > > >tim
> > > >
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