Error on the Installation of Mandrake 8.2

[Voltage Spike]

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On Saturday 15 June 2002 19:06, Mario Hines wrote:
> "Kernel Panic:VFS: Can't mount the device 01:03."
>
>      I'm not exactly sure what that means, but I kinda
> bypassed that problem by just going into Mandrake and
> doing a live update, then I run in this error message:
>
> "Can't open /var/lib/rpm/Packages."
>
>      I check in that section of my tree, . . . didn't
> have a Packages directory.  I also tried another way
> with the rpm's, but those had signature errors.  So,
> please, tell me if it's the CD or is it my system.
> Cause I have NO clue of what to do now.  Thanks.

I don't know how helpful this is, but Packages is a *file*.  It apparently 
comes with the rpm tool and is updated to hold the package info (rpm -qi), if 
not more.

I would try (as root) 'rpm --rebuilddb'.  I have never tried this, so don't 
take my advice too seriously. ;-)

I hope this helps.

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