I'm going to be reloading slack9 on this box. This machine has had slackware on it before. I have tried 2 differnet ISO's.

During installation it won't find my CDrom during the scan. Do it a second time it works. During install it is installing some stuff, then dies and says this packages cannot be installed because it is corrupt, or the media is bad .. I hit enter and continues to install. Then it comes up. Its differnet packages everytime.

Anyone have a suggestion? I saw an option to install from a partition. Should I create a ext3 partition and drag the contents of my CD to that location and then mount it to install from there?

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

try cleaning ur cdrom to see if that will take care of the problem.

I actually did try that, while I was waiting for a reply here. Any other ideas?

Thanks!

did you d/l and burn the ISO yourself??
have you tried making root/boot floppies, these floppies will load the installer and then you can use the CD as normal to install the programs, make partitions, make swap file, etc.

Yes, I downloaded the ISO and burnt it myself. I haven't tried the root disks, cause everything works great even way past that point. I can boot, cfdisk, add swap, target, format ext3, select my type of install (i do full) and then thats what its starts to act up.

Well. I'm going to try another ISO. If anyone has any other ideas let me know.

I actually had the same problem but kept accepting the errors with a view to just upgrading or reinstalling those with errors when and if I got it up and running okay. However it did appear to install okay but now I have got the following error message;

'A crash occured in the panel.
Please report this to the xfce4-dev@moongroup.com lis.
Meanwhile the panel will be restarted.'

I had a problem with this once with slack 7.1, it turned out to be a bad stick of memory that was causing it, I removed it and all was well in the land of make believe, err real life.