thetman Posted April 14, 2004 Share Posted April 14, 2004 ok, im trying to install mandrake 10.0 on my spare machine , trying to get something up to run mythTV. it gives me an error message every time after freezing while in the "Loading Program into Memory" phase, no matter what install i try (regular, text, vgalo, expert) it always freezes there and spins the cd rom up and down, then gives me the following "error in exec of stage2 :-( trying to execute '/usr/bin/runinstall2' from the installation volume, the following fatal error occured FATAL ERROR IN STAGE1: I/O error I can't recover from this. You may reboot your system." i quoted exactly as it says i have formatted the drive after having knoppMYTH on it with PM8 with no formatting and trying fat32 (just so something was on there, so i could format this into my swap and ext2/3) what am i doing wrong? i have tried 2 dics both of which verify fine after burning and md5's check out ok. hopefully someone has a solution for me to try in the morning otherwise im going to use fedora core 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aldo Posted April 14, 2004 Share Posted April 14, 2004 Have you tried any other distros? I couldn't get Mandrake 10s installer to work in graphical mode, and even the text installer was badly designed. Fedore core 2 is going to be a much better distro IMO as it seems to be more stable. Also, you should be able to get mythTV up and running quickly with apt-get for RPM and synaptic. Hope someone can help you with your mandrake problem, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MulletRobZ Posted April 14, 2004 Share Posted April 14, 2004 Fedora 2 shall be more sable than Mandrake 10, but I did not have problems using the installer. Just had to boot from floppy and the performance was sluggish. Took 2 - 3 hours to install Mandrake 10.0 when it took only 30 - 60 minutes to install Slackware 9.1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saab74 Posted April 14, 2004 Share Posted April 14, 2004 Sorry guys, I had no problems installing Mandrake 10 or Fedora Core 2 on my 2 pc's the experiences that i have encountered with these 2 distros is that if your hardware on your pc is cheap, Linux will give you a hard time. For example Motherboards with built in video will give you a hard time, Ati video cards work great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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