[ale] Install Issues with my inspiron 8500

[Jeb Barger]

Downloaded it again (oc48 connections rock), md5 hash matches.  No Joy.
Same Problem.

Jonathan Rickman wrote:

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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On 
>>Behalf Of Jeb Barger
>>Sent: Monday, September 06, 2004 2:24 PM
>>To: ale at ale.org
>>Subject: [ale] Install Issues with my inspiron 8500
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>>I have been trying to installing MDK10 on my inspiron 8500.  
>>Things go fine except when it asks for the second cd.  It 
>>will tell me that it is not found, once I put it in of 
>>course.  I thought it was just a bad cd, so I burnt another 
>>one same problem.  I have also tried different distro's they 
>>all have problems when I asked to switch cd's.  I have also 
>>tried burning the cd's using a different burner.  Any ideas?
>>
>>The only distro I have had luck with was a Fedora boot DVD 
>>(didn't need to switch disks and it worked).
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> Check the MD5 sum on the ISO you downloaded and make sure the download was
> complete. I downloaded FC2 disk 2 the other day, successfully I thought, and
> burned the CD only to find missing packages. The packages were there, but
> reported as 0 bytes in size. Downloaded via http with Firefox 0.8 on WinXP
> and burned with Roxio on same. I'd seen this happen before with Bittorrent
> downloads, so I picked up on it pretty quick. MD5 sum failed verification,
> so I extracted the ISO to a folder with WinRAR and discovered that a number
> of packages were 0 bytes in size. A fresh download took care of things.
> Never seen any quirky drive problems on the 8500, and I have loaded RH9 and
> Slackware on quite a few of them. If it is a problem with the drive, then as
> you said, the DVD is the way to go unless you feel like performing a network
> install.
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> Jonathan
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