[Discuss] installpkg error #2

Thu Dec 7 18:07:36 CST 2006

alright. well, i'm fiddling with mandriva 2007, waiting for everything
to be installed, including all the guis.

actually, i should be burning disc one of slackware.

i just didn't want to be too ambitious about the oses. i'm most
concerned with speed. i have little interest in openoffice, right now.
i'm more interested in tex. when i get a new computer, i'll install
everything and run it whatever way i choose. but i think i'll try that
wm or some of the others to see which is fastest.

cheers,

tim

On 12/7/06, Bill Leuze <billeuze at shaw.ca> wrote:
> 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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