Re: 2010.1 Installation failed - Dell Inspiron 8500

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Norman Carver <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thursday 07 October 2010 02:30:59 pm Albert E. Whale wrote:
>>  I am attempting to install Powerpack 2010.1 on a Dell Inspiron 8500.
>> The install fails while loading the program into memory.
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>> Has anyone else encountered this?
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>> The kernel messages seem to indicate a Medium error on the DVD, but the
>> disk verifies.
>>
>> Any ideas would be helpful.
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> I had problems on a couple of machines installing from the free DVD,
> one being a Dell laptop (not same as yours) and another a desktop.
> In both cases it was when something was loading and their is a progress
> bar that goes across the middle of the screen.  Would get partway across,
> hang, and then after a while an error message.  Don't remember exactly
> the message, but seemed like a medium error.  In both cases I had to
> burn a different brand of DVD.  Never had issues like this before, so seems
> like 2010.1 is particularly sensitive (though I do not understand how that
> could be).

I don't think that Mandriva or any software could be sensitive to a
DVD or CD media. What can be sensitive, ans usually is, is the DVD/CD
drive.

> Having the issue on the desktop was very odd, as it has two
> DVD drives that I use all the time, and could not do install with either one
> from one DVD (that checked out fine).
> Norm
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