[Mageia-dev] Mageia 2 DVD 64bits install is broken

Sat May 26 02:19:03 CEST 2012

Le 26/05/12 01:07,Simple . nous adresse ces quelques mots :
+> 2012/5/25 Maurice Batey <maurice at bcs.org.uk>:
+>> On Thu, 24 May 2012 19:01:38 +0100, Simple . wrote:
+>>
+>>> i said that md5 was checked, so the downloaded .iso is ok,
+>>
+>>   But did you do a 'check after write", to confirm that the .iso had been
+>> correctly writeen to DVD?
+> 
+> I hae not build the .iso into a DVD, but burned it into a USB pen
+> disk, and with a more thorough inspection i was able to see that in
+> the severall tries the same files were saved in the USB with
+> INCOMPLETE names, and that happened in files that had very long names,
+> like:
+> 
+> telepathy-kde-common-internals-translations-0.3.0-1.mga2.noarch.rpm
+> vboxadditions-kernel-3.3.6-desktop-2.mga2-4.1.12-5.mga2.x86_64.rpm
+> vboxadditions-kernel-3.3.6-netbook-2.mga2-4.1.12-5.mga2.x86_64.rpm
+> 
+> and the 19 failed transactions came from failed dependencies due to
+> not recognized the packages with incomplete names.
+> 
+> i used rufus in windows to burn the .iso into the usb, now i dont know
+> if this is specifically caused by rufus or if this is caused by other
+> thing, and here would be better that others could test and reproduce
+> this.
+
+You can maybe submit a bug report on the rufus website. I guess they
+will tell you what is the problem.
+
+> Regarding  "No ACPI" i can not confirm what Marc Paré said, and again,
+> the install runned fine, so here was not the case that "No ACPI" could
+> make any difference, only if the boot didnt run is that i could try
+> "No ACPI" to see if woud solve it.
+> And when using"No ACPI" the boot freezed.
+> 
+> So when in the USB pen disk i renamed the packages to its original
+> filenames,
+
+Wow, that was a weird bug ...
+
+> the install went fine and finally made to conclude with
+> sucess Mageia 2 install.
+
+\o/ Yeah!
+
+-- 
+Malo
+
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