[TriLUG] Mandrake frustrations

[William Sutton]

/etc/fstab includes the following entries:

-----
/dev/sda2 / ext3 defaults 1 1
/dev/hda1 /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/sdb2 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom auto 
user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec,users 0 0
/dev/sr1 /mnt/cdrom2 auto 
user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec,users 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto 
user,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850,noauto,exec,users 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /mp3 ext3 defaults 1 2
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda5 /var ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/sda1 swap swap defaults 0 0
-----

the cd drives are respectively as follows:
/mnt/cdrom -> Plextor 12/20 Plex CD-ROM Ultra-2 SCSI
/mnt/cdrom2 -> Plextor PlexWriter 8/20 XD-R Ultra-2 SCSI

both would show up under Red Hat as
/dev/cdrom -> /mnt/cdrom
/dev/cdrom1 -> /mnt/cdrom

the 12/20 showed up for the initial install since that was the drive I 
used.

Just for giggles I checked the md5sums on my files.  I downloaded the isos 
from

http://www.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/mandrake/official/iso/10.1/i586/

md5sums and other mirrors are here:

http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/ftp.php3

According to the page, the 3-iso-cd download (which I got) has the 
following checksums:

7833f17c3fbe95581c48cf3848792d21 Mandrakelinux-10.1-Official-Download-CD1.i586.iso
5850545e8fa3f63323a90b1403ec5064 Mandrakelinux-10.1-Official-Download-CD2.i586.iso
029f660c78e29427f775a54284fb7085 Mandrakelinux-10.1-Official-Download-CD3.i586.iso

When I dumped the above to a file, ran md5sum <iso> >>mysums.txt, cleaned 
up extra spaces, and diffed the two files, the result was identical 
(implies my isos have the proper checksums).

William

On Sun, 26 Dec 2004, Jason Tower wrote:

> On Sunday 26 December 2004 22:13, William Sutton wrote:
> > Hmmm...I have learned at least one something (configuring printing)
> > from this.  Thank you for enlightening me on your observations of the
> > various idiosyncracies.
> >
> > Since I don't have a spare Linux system running that I can do a
> > network install from, I'm afraid that I don't have that option.  I do
> > have a question though:  If I was able to download the iso images,
> > mount them via loop, ls them, umount them, burn them to disc, and
> > perform an install using them, does that imply that the images
> > downloaded completely and correctly?  It would seem that if something
> > was left out then it wouldn't...
> >
> > Also, RE my missing CD devices, any ideas on what to do about them? 
> > At the moment I am planning YAI (yet another install) for tomorrow
> > (hey, practice makes perfect ;) )
> >
> > Most helpful you are Mr. Tower, yes!
> >
> > William
> 
> no clue what /dev/sr0 is supposed to be (scsi removable?  could it be a 
> cdrw being treated as a scsi device?)  check /etc/fstab on the system, 
> maybe that will give you a hint.
> 
> an md5sum is the typical way to see if a downloaded ISO is correct.  a 
> partially bad image can still be loopback mounted, so that won't tell 
> you much.
> 
> welcome you are :-)
> 
> jason
>