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  From: michael <michael@home.lyppard.com.au>
  To  : Jeremy Ervine <omegasys@adam.com.au>
  Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 07:46:33 +0930 (CST)

RE: Mandrake 8

Hi.

Another thought, There must be a md5sum for the iso. Check for it on the
mandrake site. It is a checksum for the whole file, that will confirm that
you have had an error-free download. Here is how it works:

Say the md5sum from mandrake says something like this:

d8acc45b1c8f4ec60cdd89834628f592  mandrake.iso

you type:

md5sum path/to/downloaded/mandrake.iso

and you should see

d8acc45b1c8f4ec60cdd89834628f592  path/to/downloaded/mandrake.iso 

If they are the same, you know your download was 100%

Michael

On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, Jeremy Ervine wrote:

> 
> yep. it works fine. have you tried another ditribution, or even try loading
> windows 98 on the box from scratch to see if there are any hardware
> probelems. normally if the install of win98 BSOD's during a fresh install is
> a good indicator to show if there is anything wrong with your hardware.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Cook [mailto:stephencook@email.com]
> Sent: Saturday, 28 April 2001 3:03 PM
> To: LinuxSA@linuxsa.org.au
> Subject: Mandrake 8
> 
> 
> Hello Linuxians,
> 
> I have tried two separate downloads now of the iso file and each (when CD is
> made) resulted in failure to load stage 2 ramdisk. Installation aborted.
> 
> Has anyone successfully installed this version from the downloaded iso?
> 
> Any feedback would be appreciated.
> 
> Stephen Cook
> Darwin
> 
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