[Discuss] installpkg error #2

[Tim Holloway]

thanks for the tips, peter. it's been a while since anyone reminded me
about burning at higher speeds. i'll just have to be patient. the live
slax i used was a 200 megger but it didn't have what i'm looking for
at all. however, i can probably just install tex after, since, unlike
dsl, it seems open to normal alterations.

slackware does seem to be exactly what i'm looking for, although i am
still curious about debian. i doubt installing complete distributions
of both of these is practical on a 20GB hard drive.

thanks again to everyone.

oh, and i suppose the integrity checks are more involved than nero's
data verification, eh? i'll find something to use to really check.

thanks two millions ;-)

On 12/7/06, Peter Pitsakis <peterpit at telus.net> wrote:
> 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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