[Discuss] installpkg error #2

Thu Dec 7 16:44:37 CST 2006

At 12:46 PM 2006-12-07, you wrote:
>thanks for the tips, peter. it's been a while since anyone reminded me
>about burning at higher speeds.

I used to sometimes get burn broblems. now I always burn at 1/2 the rated speed of the burner and I never get problems

> 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.

Oh, come on. It wasn't that long ago (it seems) when I used on average 2GB per install.  at home I had Winnt4, Win95 and Slackware7 on a 6 GB drive. with 20 GB you should have no problem installing 2 OSs. And if you do it right you should be able to use the same /home partition between the 2 of them, you could also use the same /swap partition. 

Of course it depends on what you mean by installing "complete distributions" but, didn't you say you have a K6400 cpu It would be real sluggish running KDE and you could make a pot of coffee in the time it takes openoffice.org to open so you don't want "complete distributions" anyway so you've got lots of room.

As far as window managers for older processors, I used to use WM (Window Maker) on Slakware in the 233 - 400 days, It was really light on resources (fast). Someone else recommended a different lightweight window manager that I've never heard of - he probably knows more than me as for the last 5 years at least I have just used Gnome (with whatever window manager my distro uses with it - used to be sawfish with slack, I don't even know what I use now on gentoo) and I don know what else is out there.

Bill

>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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