[luau] intall problems mdk8.2/K6/Via chipset

[Alvin Murphy]

Not sure if this is kosher; I am responding to my own posting, primarily 
to save someone effort.  I did look up and found a windows (actually 
DOS) version of md5 which I can use. I also found a site which has the 
32 bit checksum listed. So tonight I plan to run that on the CD1 iso of 
the Mdk 8.2. If that goes well, will continue. I must say I am puzzled 
about the "failure of Insmod" message; if the option "patch" runs the 
Insmod utility and it is searching for kernel compatibility but the new 
kernel is not yet installed, it would seem to me it is bound to fail. I 
may try the -f option to force it, but I am guessing this is dangerous.

Alvin Murphy wrote:

> Hi everybody:  I posted this on Mdk site but thought I might get more 
> help locally. As you can see, I am not too familiar with options to 
> use during "expert" install.  Also, if I decide to download the iso 
> files again, I could use a little help with the checksum method; 
> basically, I do not kinow how to use it. Also, I download and burn on 
> a Win98 macchine because my Linux box does not have a burner. Thus not 
> sure if I can use the checksum method on a windows machine or is this 
> something I can do later after the iso is burned? Thanks.
>
> I had a very difficult installation of 8.2 and finally had to back out 
> and reinstalls 8.1. Then I found the errata notes and saw that two of 
> them applied to me since I have a K-6 processor (AMD K6-2 500), but 
> also have a Via MVP3 chipset. The instructions are somewhat confusing. 
> For one case, one is supposed to use the patch option, for the other 
> case one is supposed to use the no pentium option. Since,  generally 
> in Linux/Unix one can chain options, I tried booting with the 
> following: "expert nopentium patch". This seems to work, although I 
> first had to correct one mistake in the directions where they said the 
> patch should be on a DOS disk, whereas the install program clearly 
> asks for an EXT2 disk. This kind of non-connect between instructions 
> and reality does not give one a lot of faith in the directions. In any 
> case, I got to the screen which asks for the disk with the patch and 
> then asks for options; I had no idea what to enter there; first I 
> tried nothing which led to a "failure of Insmod". Then I tried adding 
> nopentium as an option which led to the same result. So I have no idea 
> how to proceed. This is a CD from CheapBytes; so maybe I will tried to 
> learn how to use the sum checking method and download the program from 
> the website. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>
>
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