Mandrake 10 install errors

[Richard Hubbard]

does mandrake have a 'check the disk' option similar to rh or fedora? if 
so, that is worthwhile (i've saved myself oodles of time by doing the 
checks)


David Rosonowski wrote:

>Sounds like your media is bad, try burning the CDs again, or maybe
>just cleaning them. If they're clean, and a fresh burn doesn't solve
>it, then your drive itself may have issues.
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: Christopher  Crowell <crowell33 at earthlink.net>
>Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2004 22:10:44 -0400
>Subject: Mandrake 10 install errors
>To: nflug at nflug.org
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>Installed Mandrake 10 tonight, and I don't know if this is normal or
>not, but I got a lot of errors while I was installing it. This is the
>message that I got.
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>"There was an error installing packages:
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>OpenOffice.org-libs-1.1-11mdk.i586
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>Go on anyway?"
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>And I got the same message for the following packages also:
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>"eog-2.4.1-1mdk.1586"
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>"xine-plugins-1-0.rc3.6mdk.i586"
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>"libkoffice2-1-1.3-12mdk.i586"
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>"gimp-1.2.5-10mdk.1586"
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>"XFree86-75dpi-fonts-4.3-30mdk.i586"
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>"armagetron-0.2.5.2-1mdk.i586"
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>First off, is this normal to receive this many errors during an
>install? Would it help if I did the text-based install instead of the
>GUI install? Also, for some reason I can't open up the OpenOffice
>writer, and I'm assuming it's because of the error I received during
>install. Are these things that can be fixed?
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>Thanks for help, guys.
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>Chris
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